The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 202

The little man took the necklace, sat himself down at the wheel, and whir, whir, whir, the wheel went round three times, and the bobbin was full.

Who acts: little man, wheel, bobbin · What happens: take, sit down, go round, be · To what, where: necklace, wheel

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little man, wheel, bobbin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 necklace	det
6	necklace	necklace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 sat	punct
8	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 sat	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	8 sat	compound:prt
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 wheel	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wheel	det
13	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sat	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 whir	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 whir	cc
16	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 whir	punct
18	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whir	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 whir	punct
20	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 whir	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 went	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wheel	det
23	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 went	nsubj
24	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	conj
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 went	advmod
26	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 times	nummod
27	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 went	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 full	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 full	cc
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bobbin	det
31	bobbin	bobbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 full	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 full	cop
33	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 took	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the little man	the necklace				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent necklace=Theme
2	sit down	past	the little man not said here	necklace	the wheel			tree rules
3	go round	past	the wheel			time	round property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	the bobbin				full property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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