More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 7
"Spinning thread, my hinnie," said the old woman, pleased with her. "
Who acts: old woman · What happens: spin, say · To what, where: thread · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spinning | punct |
| 2 | Spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Spinning | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hinnie | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hinnie | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hinnie | hinnie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thread | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spinning | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spinning | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleased | punct |
| 14 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 her | case |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pleased | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin in a quote | gerund | thread and my hinnie | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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