The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 136

Then the Count fell ill, and the Countess supposed that Renelde, weary of waiting, had begun her spinning anew; but when she came to the cottage to see, she found the wheel silent.

Who acts: Count, Countess, Renelde · What happens: fall, suppose, wait, begin, spin, come · To what, where: pride, cottage, wheel · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Count, Countess, Renelde), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Count	det
3	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 supposed	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 supposed	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Countess	det
9	Countess	Countess	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 supposed	nsubj
10	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 begun	mark
12	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 begun	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weary	punct
14	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 Renelde	amod
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 waiting	mark
16	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 weary	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 Renelde	punct
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 begun	aux
19	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 supposed	ccomp
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 begun	obj
21	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 begun	advcl
22	anew	anew	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spinning	xcomp
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 found	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	35 found	cc
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 came	advmod
26	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 came	nsubj
27	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 found	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 cottage	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 cottage	det
30	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 came	obl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 see	mark
32	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 came	advcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 came	punct
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 found	nsubj
35	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 wheel	det
37	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 found	obj
38	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 found	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the Count			then	ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	suppose	past	the Countess					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	wait	gerund	Renelde not said here					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past · perfect	Renelde	pride				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
5	spin	gerund	Renelde not said here				anew property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
6	come	past	Renelde		the cottage			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to cottage=Initial_Location
7	see	to-infinitive	Renelde not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
8	find	past	Renelde	the wheel			silent property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Topic

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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