Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Flax, sentence 18
At last it was put on the spinning wheel. "
What happens: put, spin · To what, where: plenty, spinning wheel
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Flax. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 put | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 put | aux:pass |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 wheel | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wheel | det |
| 8 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 wheel | amod |
| 9 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past · passive | plenty | the spinning wheel | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on wheel=Destination | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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