The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 59

She wove and cut it out at once, hoping that the Count would not force her to begin the other.

Who acts: Renelde, Count · What happens: weave, cut out, hope, not force, not begin · To what, where: thread, Renelde, other

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, Count), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wove	nsubj
2	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 cut	cc
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wove	conj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 cut	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 hoping	punct
10	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 cut	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 force	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Count	det
13	Count	count	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 force	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 force	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 force	advmod
16	force	force	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 hoping	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 force	obj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 begin	mark
19	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 force	xcomp
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 other	det
21	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 begin	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	weave	past	Renelde		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	cut out	past	Renelde not said here	thread	vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality
3	hope	gerund	Renelde not said here		vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	not force	would	the Count	Renelde	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
5	not begin	to-infinitive	Renelde not said here	the other	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Eventuality

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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