The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 10, sentence 105

Take them and weave them into a web that is as smooth as a king's robe, and see that it is spun by the time that the sun sets.'

Who acts: you, web, sun · What happens: take, weave, be, see, spin, set · To what, where: yarns, web, robe · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, web, sun), 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	Take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Take	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 weave	cc
4	weave	weave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 weave	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 web	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 web	det
8	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 weave	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 smooth	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 smooth	cop
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 smooth	advmod
12	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 web	acl:relcl
13	as	as	ADP	_	17 robe	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 king	det
15	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 robe	nmod:poss
16	's	's	PART	_	15 king	case
17	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 smooth	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 see	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 see	cc
20	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Take	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 spun	mark
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spun	nsubj:pass
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 spun	aux:pass
24	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 see	ccomp
25	by	by	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 time	det
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spun	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 sets	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sets	nsubj
31	sets	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 spun	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Take	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	yarns = yarn				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	weave	infinitive	you not said here	yarns = yarn	a web			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent they=Material into web=Product
3	is	present	a web				as a king's robe; smooth property	tree rules
4	see	infinitive	you not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	spin	present · passive		robe		time		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
6	set	present	the sun					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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