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title: The maiden now went home and worked hard all day at winding up the y… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The maiden now went home and worked hard all day at winding up the yarn her elder sisters had spun, for the old woman would let her spin no longer. Who acts: maiden, yarn, old woman, thread. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, with its dependency tr
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners, sentence 31

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The maiden now went home and worked hard all day at winding up the yarn her elder sisters had spun, for the old woman would let her spin no longer.

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**Who acts:** maiden, yarn, old woman, thread · **What happens:** go, work, wind up, spin, let · **To what, where:** yarn, elder sisters, thread

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Water-lily. the Gold-spinners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, yarn, old woman, thread), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg503:26:31
# text = The maiden now went home and worked hard all day at winding up the yarn her elder sisters had spun, for the old woman would let her spin no longer.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nsubj	_	_
3	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	home	home	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	worked	work	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	7	advmod	_	_
9	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
11	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	winding	wind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RP	_	12	compound:prt	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	yarn	yarn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	elder	elder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	compound	_	_
18	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
26	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
28	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	spin	spin	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	no	no	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	29	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the maiden |  |  |  | now | home *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **work** | past | the maiden *not said here* |  |  |  | day | hard *property* | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **wind up** | gerund | the maiden *not said here* | the yarn |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent yarn=Theme |
| 4 | **spin** | past · perfect · passive | the yarn *not said here* | thread's elder sisters |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: subject=Result |
| 5 | **let** | would | the old woman | thread |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **spin** | infinitive | thread *not said here* |  |  |  |  | long *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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