The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 6

Now the two eldest sons had already chosen their wives; so they took the flax from their mother, and carried it off with them, to have it spun as she had said.

Who acts: sons, flax, mother · What happens: choose, take, carry off, have, spin, say · To what, where: two eldest sons, flax · 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 (sons, flax, mother), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 chosen	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sons	det
3	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 sons	nummod
4	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sons	amod
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chosen	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	aux
7	already	already	ADV	_	8 chosen	advmod
8	chosen	choose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wives	nmod:poss
10	wives	wife	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 chosen	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 took	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 took	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	nsubj
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chosen	parataxis
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 flax	det
16	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	19 mother	case
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 mother	nmod:poss
19	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 flax	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 carried	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 carried	cc
22	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 took	conj
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 carried	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 them	case
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
28	to	to	PART	_	29 have	mark
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 carried	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 have	xcomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 said	mark
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 said	nsubj
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 said	aux
35	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 spun	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 chosen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	choose	past · perfect · passive		the two eldest sons	now		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary wife=Theme
2	take	past	sons = son	the flax		from sons's mother	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent flax=Theme from mother=Initial_Location
3	carry off	past	sons = son not said here	flax		with sons = son	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	have	to-infinitive	sons = son not said here	flax			tree rules
5	spin	participle	flax not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	say speech: assert	past · perfect	mother				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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