The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 7

But the youngest son was puzzled what to do with his skein, as he knew no girl (never having spoken to any) to whom he could give it to be spun.

Who acts: he, girl · What happens: puzzle, do, know, not have, speak, give · To what, where: youngest son, girl, 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 (he, girl), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 puzzled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 son	det
3	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 son	amod
4	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puzzled	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzled	aux:pass
6	puzzled	puzzle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 do	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 puzzled	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 skein	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 skein	nmod:poss
12	skein	skein	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 knew	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 knew	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 puzzled	conj
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 girl	det
18	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obj
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	21 having	punct
20	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	21 having	advmod
21	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 girl	acl
22	spoken	speak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 having	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 any	case
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 spoken	obl
25	)	)	PUNCT	_	21 having	punct
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 whom	case
27	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 give	obl
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 give	aux
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 knew	ccomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	34 spun	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 spun	aux:pass
34	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 give	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 puzzled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	puzzle	past · passive		the youngest son		tree rules
2	do	to-infinitive			with his skein	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	know	past	he	no girl		tree rules
4	not have	gerund	no girl not said here			tree rules
5	speak speech: other	participle	no girl not said here		to any	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to any=Co-Agent
6	give	could	he	flax		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to whom=Recipient
7	spin	to-infinitive · passive	he not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»

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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