The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 30
This time Renelde was spinning not hemp, but flax.
Who acts: time · What happens: spin, not be · To what, where: spinning hemp
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 (time), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hemp | nsubj |
| 3 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hemp | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hemp | cop |
| 5 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 hemp | amod |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 hemp | advmod |
| 7 | hemp | hemp | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 flax | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 flax | cc |
| 10 | flax | flax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hemp | conj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hemp | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | past | this time | spinning hemp but flax | tree rules |
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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