The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 100

They sprung up even in the well-trodden floor of the cottage, and as fast as they were uprooted the distaff gathered to itself a supply of nettles, crushed, prepared, and ready for spinning.

Who acts: nettles, distaff · What happens: spring up, tread, uproot, gather, crush, prepare · To what, where: trodden floor, nettles, supply, distaff

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nettles, distaff), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sprung	nsubj
2	sprung	spring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 sprung	compound:prt
4	even	even	ADV	_	10 floor	advmod
5	in	in	ADP	_	10 floor	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 floor	det
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 trodden	advmod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 well	punct
9	trodden	tread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 floor	amod
10	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sprung	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 cottage	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cottage	det
13	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 floor	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 uprooted	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 uprooted	cc
16	as	as	ADV	_	17 fast	advmod
17	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 uprooted	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 uprooted	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 uprooted	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 uprooted	aux:pass
21	uprooted	uproot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sprung	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 distaff	det
23	distaff	distaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gathered	nsubj
24	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 uprooted	ccomp
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 itself	case
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 gathered	obl
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 supply	det
28	supply	supply	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 gathered	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 nettles	case
30	nettles	nettle	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 supply	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 crushed	punct
32	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 nettles	acl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 prepared	punct
34	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 crushed	conj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 ready	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 ready	cc
37	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 sprung	conj
38	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 spinning	mark
39	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 ready	advcl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sprung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	spring up	participle	nettles = nettle			the trodden floor of the cottage		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in floor=Location
2	tread	participle					well property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	uproot	past · passive		nettles = nettle			fast property	tree rules
4	gather	past	the distaff	a supply of nettles	distaff			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent supply=Patient to itself=Co-Patient
5	crush	participle		nettles not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
6	prepare	participle						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	spin	gerund	nettles = nettle not said here					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: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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