The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 203
Then he put on another, and whir, whir, whir, the wheel went round three times, and the second too was full; and so it went on till the morning, when all the straw was spun away, and all the bobbins were full of gold.
Who acts: man, wheel, second, bobbin, bobbins · What happens: put, go round, be, go on, spin away · To what, where: whir, another, straw
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 (man, wheel, second, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 put | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 put | nsubj |
| 3 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 another | case |
| 5 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 put | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 whir | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 whir | cc |
| 8 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 put | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 whir | punct |
| 10 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whir | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 whir | punct |
| 12 | whir | whir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 whir | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheel | det |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | conj |
| 17 | round | round | ADV | _ | 16 went | advmod |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 times | nummod |
| 19 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 went | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 full | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 second | det |
| 23 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 26 full | nsubj |
| 24 | too | too | ADV | _ | 26 full | advmod |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 full | cop |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 went | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 so | cc |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 went | nsubj |
| 31 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 put | parataxis |
| 32 | on | on | ADV | _ | 31 went | advmod |
| 33 | till | till | ADP | _ | 35 morning | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 morning | det |
| 35 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 went | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 spun | punct |
| 37 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 spun | mark |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 straw | det:predet |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 straw | det |
| 40 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 spun | aux:pass |
| 42 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 went | conj |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 spun | advmod |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 full | punct |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 full | cc |
| 46 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 bobbins | det:predet |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 bobbins | det |
| 48 | bobbins | bobbin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 full | nsubj |
| 49 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 full | cop |
| 50 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 put | conj |
| 51 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 gold | case |
| 52 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 full | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | man | whir and whir and whir | another | then | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on another=Destination | ||
| 2 | go round | past | the wheel | time | round property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the second | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go on | past | bobbin | morning | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spin away | past · passive | all straw | away property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | is | past | all bobbins | of gold; 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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