The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 9

She worked hard, spinning, weaving, and sewing, and her old godmother’s blessing seemed to prosper all she did.

Who acts: girl, blessing, old godmother · What happens: work, spin, weave, sew, seem, prosper · To what, where: all

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, blessing, old godmother), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 worked	nsubj
2	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 worked	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 spinning	punct
5	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 worked	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 weaving	punct
7	weaving	weave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spinning	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sewing	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sewing	cc
10	sewing	sew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spinning	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seemed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 seemed	cc
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 godmother	nmod:poss
14	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 godmother	amod
15	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 blessing	nmod:poss
16	’s	's	PART	_	15 godmother	case
17	blessing	blessing	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seemed	nsubj
18	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 worked	parataxis
19	to	to	PART	_	20 prosper	mark
20	prosper	prosper	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 seemed	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 prosper	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 did	nsubj
23	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 all	acl:relcl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 worked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	work	past	girl		hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spin	gerund	girl not said here			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	weave	gerund	girl not said here			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sew	gerund	girl not said here			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	seem	past	girl's old godmother's blessing			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	prosper	to-infinitive	girl's old godmother's blessing not said here	all		tree rules
7	do	past	girl			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	bless		girl's old godmother			nom blessing «act 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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