The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 208

The manikin took the ring, and whir! round went the spinning-wheel again, and when morning broke he had spun all the straw into glittering gold.

Who acts: manikin, ring · What happens: take, go, break, spin, glitter · To what, where: ring, spinning wheel, straw, gold

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 (manikin, ring), 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	2 manikin	det
2	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ring	det
5	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 went	cc
8	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	vocative
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	8 whir	punct
10	round	round	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
11	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wheel	det
13	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wheel	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 spinning	punct
15	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 went	obj
16	again	again	ADV	_	11 went	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 broke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 broke	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 broke	advmod
20	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 broke	obl:unmarked
21	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 spun	nsubj
23	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 spun	aux
24	spun	spin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 broke	parataxis
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 straw	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 straw	det
27	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spun	obj
28	into	into	SCONJ	_	29 glittering	mark
29	glittering	glitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 spun	advcl
30	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 glittering	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the manikin	the ring			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme
2	go	past	the manikin not said here	the spinning wheel	again	whir vocative; round property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wheel=Theme
3	break	past	the manikin not said here		morning		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	spin	past · perfect	ring	all straw			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme
5	glitter	gerund	ring not said here	gold			vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gold=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 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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