The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 130
She might have humbled his pride had she gone to her spinning-wheel again, but she did nothing of the sort.
Who acts: pride, Renelde, Wolf · What happens: humble, go, do, pride · To what, where: Renelde, spinning wheel, nothing
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 (pride, Renelde, Wolf), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 humbled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 humbled | aux |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 humbled | aux |
| 4 | humbled | humble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 pride | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 gone | aux |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 gone | nsubj |
| 9 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 humbled | parataxis |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 wheel | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheel | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spinning | punct |
| 14 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gone | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 gone | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 did | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 did | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 did | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 humbled | conj |
| 20 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 19 did | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 sort | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sort | det |
| 23 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 nothing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 humbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | humble | might · perfect · passive | Renelde | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | Wolf's pride | Renelde's spinning wheel | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wheel=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | do | past | Renelde | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | pride | Wolf | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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