The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 11

The youth told her of his trouble, and how his brothers would bring home linen spun for them by their promised wives, but that no one would spin his thread.

Who acts: youth, brothers, one · What happens: tell, bring, spin, promise, trouble · To what, where: girl, linen, thread · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth, brothers, one), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youth	det
2	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	nsubj
3	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 told	iobj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 trouble	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 trouble	nmod:poss
7	trouble	trouble	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bring	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bring	cc
10	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	14 bring	advmod
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brothers	nmod:poss
12	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 bring	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 bring	aux
14	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	conj
15	home	home	ADV	_	14 bring	advmod
16	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bring	obj
17	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 linen	acl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 them	case
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 spun	obl
20	by	by	ADP	_	23 wives	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 wives	nmod:poss
22	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 wives	amod
23	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 spun	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 spin	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 spin	cc
26	that	that	SCONJ	_	30 spin	mark
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 one	det
28	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spin	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 spin	aux
30	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 told	parataxis
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 thread	nmod:poss
32	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 spin	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the youth		girl	of youth's trouble	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	bring	would	youth's brothers	linen		home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent linen=Theme
3	spin	participle		linen not said here		for brothers = brother; by brothers's promised wives	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme by wife=Trajectory
4	promise speech: promise	participle					vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	spin	would	no one	youth's thread			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme
6	trouble		youth				nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=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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