The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 20

And then more days and nights passed, and this rumour was succeeded by another one--that Stana had procured some flax, and had dried it, and combed it, and spun it into linen, and sewed it herself into the shirt of which she had spoken over the strawberry beds.

Who acts: more days, one, Stana · What happens: pass, succeed, procure, dry, comb, spin · To what, where: rumour, flax, linen, shirt, strawberry beds · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (more days, one, Stana), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 passed	cc
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 passed	advmod
3	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 days	amod
4	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 passed	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 nights	cc
6	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 days	conj
7	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 succeeded	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 succeeded	cc
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 rumour	det
11	rumour	rumour	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 succeeded	nsubj:pass
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 succeeded	aux:pass
13	succeeded	succeed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 passed	parataxis
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 one	case
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 one	det
16	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 succeeded	obl
17	--	--	PUNCT	_	21 procured	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 procured	mark
19	Stana	Stana	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 procured	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 procured	aux
21	procured	procure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 succeeded	conj
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 flax	det
23	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 procured	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 dried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 dried	cc
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 dried	aux
27	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 passed	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 dried	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 combed	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 combed	cc
31	combed	comb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 combed	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 spun	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 spun	cc
35	spun	spin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 combed	conj
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 spun	obj
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 linen	case
38	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 spun	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 sewed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 sewed	cc
41	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 passed	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 sewed	obj
43	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	41 sewed	obl
44	into	into	ADP	_	46 shirt	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 shirt	det
46	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 sewed	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 which	case
48	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	51 spoken	obl
49	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 spoken	nsubj
50	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 spoken	aux
51	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	46 shirt	acl:relcl
52	over	over	ADP	_	55 beds	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 beds	det
54	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 beds	compound
55	beds	bed	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 spoken	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	past	more days and nights			then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	succeed	past · passive	another one	this rumour				tree rules
3	procure	past · perfect	Stana	some flax				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flax=Theme
4	dry	past · perfect	more days and nights not said here	flax				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient it=Result
5	comb	past	more days and nights not said here	flax				vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	spin	past	more days and nights not said here	flax	linen			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme into linen=Trajectory
7	sew	past	more days and nights not said here	flax	the shirt		Stana obl	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent it=Material into shirt=Product
8	speak speech: other	past · perfect	Stana		the strawberry beds		of the shirt	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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