The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 144

He sent to fetch Renelde, placed her by his bedside, and ordered her at once to go on spinning his shroud.

Who acts: death · What happens: send, fetch, place, order, go, spin · To what, where: Renelde, shroud

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 fetch	mark
4	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 sent	xcomp
5	Renelde	Renelde	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fetch	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 placed	punct
7	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 placed	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 bedside	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 bedside	nmod:poss
11	bedside	bedside	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ordered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ordered	cc
14	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sent	parataxis
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 ordered	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 ordered	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 go	mark
19	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 ordered	xcomp
20	on	on	SCONJ	_	21 spinning	mark
21	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 go	advcl
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 shroud	nmod:poss
23	shroud	shroud	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 spinning	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	send	past	death				tree rules
2	fetch	to-infinitive	death not said here	Renelde			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent renelde=Theme
3	place	past	death not said here	Renelde		by death's bedside	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme by bedside=Destination
4	order	past			Renelde		vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	go not said to happen	to-infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	spin	gerund		death's shroud			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shroud=Theme

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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