The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 105

So the lady resolved to go without his knowledge to pray for mercy from the spinner, and in the name of Renelde’s dead mother she besought her to spin no more.

Who acts: lady · What happens: resolve, go, pray, beseech, spin, name · To what, where: spinner, mother, name, more, dead mother

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 (lady), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 resolved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lady	det
3	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 resolved	nsubj
4	resolved	resolve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 resolved	xcomp
7	without	without	ADP	_	9 knowledge	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 knowledge	nmod:poss
9	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	to	to	PART	_	11 pray	mark
11	pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 go	advcl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 mercy	case
13	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pray	obl
14	from	from	ADP	_	16 spinner	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 spinner	det
16	spinner	spinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 pray	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 besought	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 besought	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 name	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 name	det
21	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 besought	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	26 mother	case
23	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 mother	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Renelde	case
25	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mother	amod
26	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 name	nmod
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 besought	nsubj
28	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 resolved	conj
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 besought	obj
30	to	to	PART	_	31 spin	mark
31	spin	spin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 besought	advcl
32	no	no	ADV	_	33 more	advmod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 spin	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 resolved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	resolve	past	the lady				tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the lady not said here			without Count's knowledge	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	pray	to-infinitive	the lady not said here		the spinner	for mercy	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for mercy=Theme
4	beseech	past	lady	mother	the name of Renelde's dead mother		tree rules
5	spin	to-infinitive	lady not said here	more			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Theme
6	name			Renelde's dead mother			nom name «communication transitive»: of=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 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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