The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 58
Very soon she had spun the first shift, which was for her own wedding.
Who acts: Renelde, first shift · What happens: spin, be · To what, where: first 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 (Renelde, first shift), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 spun | advmod |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spun | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spun | aux |
| 5 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 shift | det |
| 7 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 shift | amod |
| 8 | shift | shift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spun | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wedding | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 wedding | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 wedding | cop |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 wedding | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wedding | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wedding | amod |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shift | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | past · perfect | Renelde | the first shift and Renelde's own wedding | soon property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shift=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | the first shift and Renelde's own wedding | for Renelde's own wedding | 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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