The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 10

The flax seemed to spread and increase; and when she wove a carpet or a piece of linen, or made a shirt, she was sure to find a customer who paid her well, so that not only did she feel no want herself, but she was able to help those who did.

Who acts: flax, customer · What happens: seem, spread, increase, weave, make, be · To what, where: carpet, shirt, customer, flax, those

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flax, customer), 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 flax	det
2	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seemed	nsubj
3	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spread	mark
5	spread	spread	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 seemed	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 increase	cc
7	increase	increase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 spread	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 wove	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wove	cc
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 wove	advmod
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wove	nsubj
12	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seemed	parataxis
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 carpet	det
14	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wove	obj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 piece	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 piece	det
17	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 carpet	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 linen	case
19	linen	linen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 piece	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wove	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 shirt	det
24	shirt	shirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 sure	punct
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 sure	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 sure	cop
28	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 sure	xcomp
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 customer	det
32	customer	customer	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obj
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 paid	nsubj
34	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 customer	acl:relcl
35	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 paid	obj
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 paid	advmod
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 feel	punct
38	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	44 feel	mark
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 so	fixed
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	44 feel	advmod
41	only	only	ADV	_	44 feel	advmod
42	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 feel	aux
43	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 feel	nsubj
44	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 made	parataxis
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 want	det
46	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 feel	ccomp
47	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 want	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 able	punct
49	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 able	cc
50	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 able	nsubj
51	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 able	cop
52	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 seemed	parataxis
53	to	to	PART	_	54 help	mark
54	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 able	xcomp
55	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	54 help	obj
56	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 did	nsubj
57	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 those	acl:relcl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seem	past	the flax			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
2	spread	to-infinitive	the flax not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	increase	infinitive	the flax not said here			vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
4	weave	past	flax	a carpet or a piece of linen		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Product
5	make	past	flax not said here	a shirt		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shirt=Product
6	is	past	flax		sure property	tree rules
7	find	to-infinitive	flax not said here	a customer		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent customer=Topic
8	pay	past	a customer	flax	well property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Asset
9	not feel	past · do-support	flax			vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
10	want	present	flax not said here	flax		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot herself=Theme
11	is	past	flax		able property	tree rules
12	help	to-infinitive	flax not said here	those		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
13	do	past				vn act-114-1 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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