The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 72
The first thing Burchard did was to send to Renelde and to stop her wheel.
Who acts: Burchard, first thing · What happens: do, be, stop · To what, where: first thing, Renelde, wheel
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 (Burchard, first thing), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 send | nsubj |
| 4 | Burchard | Burchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 send | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 send | mark |
| 8 | send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 Renelde | case |
| 10 | Renelde | Renelde | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 send | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stop | cc |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 stop | mark |
| 13 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 send | conj |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 15 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stop | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Burchard | the first thing not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the first thing | Renelde | send property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | stop | to-infinitive | the first thing not said here | thing's wheel | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality wheel=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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