The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 38
Go and gather them, and spin them into two fine shifts.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, gather, spin · To what, where: nettles, two fine shifts
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 (you), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 gather | cc |
| 3 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gather | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spin | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spin | cc |
| 7 | spin | spin | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | parataxis |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spin | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 shifts | case |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 shifts | nummod |
| 11 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 shifts | amod |
| 12 | shifts | shift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spin | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | gather | infinitive | you not said here | nettles = nettle | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spin | infinitive | nettles = nettle | two fine shifts | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme into shift=Trajectory |
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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