The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 2

Her godmother lived all alone in a little cottage at the far end of the village, and there she earned her living by spinning, weaving, and sewing.

Who acts: godmother, girl · What happens: live, earn, spin, weave, sew · To what, where: little cottage, living

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 (godmother, 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 godmother	nmod:poss
2	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	nsubj
3	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	all	all	ADV	_	5 alone	advmod
5	alone	alone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lived	xcomp
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 cottage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cottage	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cottage	amod
9	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lived	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
12	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 end	amod
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cottage	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 village	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 village	det
16	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 end	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 earned	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 earned	cc
19	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 earned	advmod
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 earned	nsubj
21	earned	earn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lived	conj
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 living	nmod:poss
23	living	living	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 earned	obj
24	by	by	SCONJ	_	25 spinning	mark
25	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 earned	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 weaving	punct
27	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 spinning	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 sewing	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 sewing	cc
30	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 spinning	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	girl's godmother		a little cottage at the far end of the village	alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cottage=Location
2	earn	past	godmother	girl's living	there		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Theme
3	spin	gerund	godmother not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	weave	gerund	godmother not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	sew	gerund	godmother not said here				vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	live		girl				nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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 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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