The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 142
In this extremity he remembered what he had told the little spinner long ago.
Who acts: death · What happens: remember, tell · To what, where: extremity, little spinner · 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 (death), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 extremity | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 extremity | det |
| 3 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remembered | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 remembered | nsubj |
| 5 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 told | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 told | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 told | aux |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 remembered | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 spinner | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spinner | amod |
| 12 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | iobj |
| 13 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 ago | advmod |
| 14 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 9 told | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | death | this extremity | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect | death | the little spinner | ago property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent spinner=Recipient what=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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