More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 7, sentence 29
The kittens oft gripped at the old wife's spindle, as it tussled over the hearthstone. "
Who acts: spindle · What happens: grip, tussle · To what, where: kittens, spindle
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spindle), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 kittens | det |
| 2 | kittens | kitten | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gripped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | oft | oft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 gripped | amod |
| 4 | gripped | grip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 spindle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wife | det |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wife | amod |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spindle | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 wife | case |
| 10 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gripped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tussled | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 tussled | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 tussled | nsubj |
| 14 | tussled | tussle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gripped | conj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 17 hearthstone | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hearthstone | det |
| 17 | hearthstone | hearthstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tussled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gripped | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 gripped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grip | participle · passive | the kittens | the old wife's spindle | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tussle | past | spindle | over the hearthstone | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over hearthstone=Theme |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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