More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 8

I wet my fingers with my lips, as I draw the thread from the distaff."

Who acts: I · What happens: wet, draw · To what, where: fingers, thread, distaff

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wet	nsubj
2	wet	wet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 fingers	nmod:poss
4	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wet	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 lips	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 lips	nmod:poss
7	lips	lip	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wet	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 draw	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 draw	mark
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 draw	nsubj
11	draw	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wet	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 thread	det
13	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obj
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 distaff	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 distaff	det
16	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 draw	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wet	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 wet	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wet	present	I	my fingers				with my lips	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent finger=Patient with lip=Instrument
2	draw	present	I	the thread		the distaff			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent thread=Theme from distaff=Initial_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: «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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