The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 23

Then she sat down to her work once more and span on, and as she did so an old saying which, she had often heard her godmother repeat whilst at work, came into her head, and she began to sing:

Who acts: girl · What happens: sit down, span on, do, hear, come, begin · To what, where: old saying, head

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 (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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 sat	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 sat	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 work	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 work	nmod:poss
7	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	9 more	advmod
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 sat	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 span	cc
11	span	span	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 sat	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 span	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 did	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 did	cc
15	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 did	mark
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 did	nsubj
17	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
18	so	so	ADV	_	17 did	advmod
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 saying	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 saying	amod
21	saying	saying	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 did	obj
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 heard	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 which	punct
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 heard	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 heard	aux
26	often	often	ADV	_	27 heard	advmod
27	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 saying	acl:relcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 repeat	nmod:poss
29	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 repeat	compound
30	repeat	repeat	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obj
31	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	33 work	case
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 work	case
33	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 heard	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 came	punct
35	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 head	case
37	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 head	nmod:poss
38	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 came	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 began	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 began	cc
41	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 began	nsubj
42	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 sing	mark
44	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 began	xcomp
45	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	girl			then	to girl's work; down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	span on	infinitive	girl not said here					vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	do	past	girl	a old saying				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Eventuality
4	hear	past · perfect	girl	a old saying			whilst work; often property	tree rules
5	come	past	girl not said here		girl's head			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into head=Initial_Location
6	begin	past	girl					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	sing speech: express	to-infinitive	girl not said here					vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	work		girl					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent
9	repeat		girl					nom repeat «event 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 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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