The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 79
Of course she was very busy all day long, but whenever she had a little spare time she sat down to spin.
Who acts: girl · What happens: be, have, sit down, spin
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 busy | mark |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Of | fixed |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 busy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 busy | advmod |
| 6 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 long | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 busy | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 sat | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 sat | cc |
| 12 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 had | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 sat | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 17 | spare | spare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 sat | nsubj |
| 20 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 busy | conj |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 sat | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 spin | mark |
| 23 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 sat | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | girl | busy, long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | girl | time | whenever property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | sit down | past | girl | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | spin | to-infinitive | girl not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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