The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 133

When she came in she put her silent wheel into a corner, and cried for three days and three nights.

Who acts: pride · What happens: come, put, cry · To what, where: silent wheel, corner

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), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	SCONJ	_	6 put	mark
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 wheel	nmod:poss
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wheel	amod
9	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 corner	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 corner	det
12	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cried	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 cried	cc
15	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 days	case
17	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	18 days	nummod
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 cried	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 nights	cc
20	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 nights	nummod
21	nights	night	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 days	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	come	past	pride				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	put	past	pride	pride's silent wheel	a corner		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent wheel=Goal
3	cry speech: express	past	pride not said here			day	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=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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