The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 57
Renelde did try, and to her great surprise the nettles when crushed and prepared gave a good thread, soft and light and firm.
Who acts: Renelde, nettles · What happens: try, crush, prepare, give, surprise · To what, where: good thread, great surprise
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, nettles), 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 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 try | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gave | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 gave | cc |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 surprise | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 surprise | amod |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nettles | det |
| 11 | nettles | nettle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 crushed | advmod |
| 13 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 nettles | acl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 prepared | cc |
| 15 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 crushed | conj |
| 16 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | parataxis |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 thread | det |
| 18 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 thread | amod |
| 19 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 gave | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 soft | punct |
| 21 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 gave | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 light | cc |
| 23 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soft | conj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 firm | cc |
| 25 | firm | firm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 soft | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · do-support | Renelde | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | crush | participle | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | prepare | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | give | past | the nettles | a good thread | Renelde's great surprise | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thread=Theme to surprise=Recipient | |||
| 5 | surprise | Renelde | nom surprise «feeling 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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