The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 149

And as before, when she sewed the Count felt his pains grow less, and the life sinking within him, and when the needle made the last stitch he gave his last sigh.

Who acts: Renelde, Count, pains, life, needle · What happens: sew, feel, grow, sink, make, give · To what, where: last stitch, last sigh

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, Count, pains, life), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	10 felt	cc
2	as	as	ADV	_	3 before	advmod
3	before	before	ADV	_	10 felt	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sewed	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 sewed	advmod
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sewed	nsubj
7	sewed	sew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Count	det
9	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 felt	nsubj
10	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pains	nmod:poss
12	pains	pain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 grow	nsubj
13	grow	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	ccomp
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 grow	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 life	det
18	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj
19	sinking	sink	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 life	acl
20	within	within	ADP	_	21 him	case
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 sinking	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 made	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 made	cc
24	when	when	SCONJ	_	27 made	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 needle	det
26	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	nsubj
27	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 felt	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 stitch	det
29	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 stitch	amod
30	stitch	stitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 made	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 stitch	acl:relcl
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 sigh	nmod:poss
34	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 sigh	amod
35	sigh	sigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 gave	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 felt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sew	past	Renelde			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent
2	feel	past	the Count		before property	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	grow	present	Count's pains		less property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	sink	gerund	the life not said here		within Count	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
5	make	past	the life	the last stitch		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stitch=Product
6	give	past	needle	Count's last sigh		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sigh=Theme
7	pain		Count			nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent
8	sigh		Count			nom sigh «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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