Celtic Fairy Tales, The Horned Women, sentence 12

And they carded the thread, and turned their spinning-wheels, and wound and wove, all singing together an ancient rhyme, but no word did they speak to the mistress of the house.

Who acts: family, all, word · What happens: card, turn, weave, sing, speak · To what, where: thread, spinning wheels, ancient rhyme · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Horned Women. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, all, word), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 carded	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 carded	nsubj
3	carded	card	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 thread	det
5	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carded	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 turned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 turned	cc
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 carded	parataxis
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wheels	nmod:poss
10	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wheels	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 spinning	punct
12	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 turned	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wound	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wound	cc
15	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 turned	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 wove	cc
17	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 turned	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 singing	punct
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 singing	nsubj
20	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wove	advcl
21	together	together	ADV	_	20 singing	advmod
22	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 rhyme	det
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 rhyme	amod
24	rhyme	rhyme	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 singing	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 speak	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 speak	cc
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 word	det
28	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speak	nsubj
29	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 speak	aux
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 speak	nsubj
31	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 carded	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 mistress	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 mistress	det
34	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 speak	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 house	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 house	det
37	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 mistress	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 carded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	card	past	family	the thread		tree rules
2	turn	past		family's spinning wheels	wound obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme
3	weave	past				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sing speech: express	gerund	all	a ancient rhyme	together property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rhyme=Theme
5	speak speech: other	past · do-support	no word		to the mistress of the house	vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to mistress=Co-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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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