--- title: The hunter’s wife did as she was advised, and the first night the mo… — The Yellow Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The hunter’s wife did as she was advised, and the first night the moon was full she sat and spun with a golden spinning-wheel, and then left the wheel on the bank. Who acts: wife, first night. A sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/27/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Yellow Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/) / [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/) / 27 # The Yellow Fairy Book, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3, sentence 27 The hunter’s wife did as she was advised, and the first night the moon was full she sat and spun with a golden spinning-wheel, and then left the wheel on the bank. **Who acts:** wife, first night · **What happens:** do, advise, be, sit, spin, leave · **To what, where:** wife, wheel, bank This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, first night), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg640:21:27 # text = The hunter’s wife did as she was advised, and the first night the moon was full she sat and spun with a golden spinning-wheel, and then left the wheel on the bank. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ’s 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 did do VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 as as SCONJ IN _ 9 mark _ _ 7 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux:pass _ _ 9 advised advise VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 12 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 13 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 14 amod _ _ 14 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 moon moon NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nsubj _ _ 17 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 cop _ _ 18 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 parataxis _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 sat sit VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 spun spin VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 23 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 25 golden golden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 amod _ _ 26 spinning spinning NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 27 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 28 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 31 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 32 advmod _ _ 32 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 wheel wheel NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obj _ _ 35 on on ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 bank bank NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | past | the hunter's wife | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **advise** *speech: other* | past · passive | | wife | | | | | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **is** | past | the first night | | | | | full *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **sit** | past | wife | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **spin** | participle | the first night *not said here* | | | | | with a golden spinning wheel | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **leave** | past | the hunter's wife *not said here* | the wheel | | the bank | then | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wheel=Theme on bank=Location | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/28/) - ↑ back to [How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg640/21/)