The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 32
‘My wedding shift, my lord.’
Who acts: My · What happens: shift
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 (My), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 shift | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 shift | nmod:poss |
| 3 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shift | compound |
| 4 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lord | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lord | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shift | conj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shift | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 shift | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shift | My | nom shift «event 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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