The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 80
The following morning, as soon as she had put the house in order, the girl sat down to spin.
Who acts: Renelde, girl · What happens: follow, put, sit down, spin · To what, where: house, order
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, girl), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 5 | as | as | ADV | _ | 6 soon | advmod |
| 6 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 put | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 put | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 morning | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 order | case |
| 14 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sat | nsubj |
| 18 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 sat | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 spin | mark |
| 21 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 sat | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | put | past · perfect | Renelde | the house | order | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent house=Theme in order=Destination | ||
| 3 | sit down | past | the girl | morning | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | spin | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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