The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 148
When the thread of the nettles was spun she wove it with her shuttle, and then cut the shroud and began to sew it.
Who acts: Renelde · What happens: spin, weave, cut, begin, sew · To what, where: thread, 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 spun | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thread | det |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 nettles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 nettles | det |
| 6 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 thread | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 spun | aux:pass |
| 8 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wove | advcl |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wove | nsubj |
| 10 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wove | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 shuttle | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 shuttle | nmod:poss |
| 14 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wove | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cut | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cut | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 cut | advmod |
| 18 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 wove | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 shroud | det |
| 20 | shroud | shroud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cut | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 began | cc |
| 22 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 cut | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 sew | mark |
| 24 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 began | xcomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sew | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past · passive | the thread of the nettles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | weave | past | Renelde | thread | with Renelde's shuttle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 3 | cut | infinitive | the shroud | then | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shroud=Product | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 5 | sew | to-infinitive | thread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
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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