The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 60
Just as she had finished sewing it, Burchard the Wolf passed by.
Who acts: Renelde, Wolf · What happens: finish, sew, pass by · To what, where: Burchard, 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, Wolf), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 finished | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 finished | mark |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | aux |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | sewing | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 finished | xcomp |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sewing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Burchard | punct |
| 9 | Burchard | Burchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 finished | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Wolf | det |
| 11 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 passed | nsubj |
| 12 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 passed | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 finished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | Renelde | Burchard | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | sew | gerund | Renelde not said here | other | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | ||||
| 3 | pass by | past | the Wolf | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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