The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 147
So Renelde forgave him, and went on spinning night and day.
Who acts: Renelde · What happens: forgive, go, spin · To what, where: death
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 forgave | advmod |
| 2 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 forgave | nsubj |
| 3 | forgave | forgive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 forgave | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 forgave | conj |
| 8 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 9 spinning | mark |
| 9 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 went | advcl |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spinning | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 day | cc |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 night | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 forgave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forgive | past | Renelde | death | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | Renelde not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | Renelde not said here | night | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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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