The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 91
The bullet rebounded without harming the spinner, who still spun on.
Who acts: bullet, spinner · What happens: rebound, harm, spin on · To what, where: spinner
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 (bullet, spinner), 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 | 2 bullet | det |
| 2 | bullet | bullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rebounded | nsubj |
| 3 | rebounded | rebound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 harming | mark |
| 5 | harming | harm | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rebounded | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spinner | det |
| 7 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 harming | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 spun | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 spun | nsubj |
| 10 | still | still | ADV | _ | 11 spun | advmod |
| 11 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spinner | acl:relcl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 spun | compound:prt |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rebounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rebound | past | the bullet | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | harm | gerund | the bullet not said here | the spinner | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spinner=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | spin on | participle | the spinner | still | 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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