The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 95
The next day the wheel was mended, and the spinner sat down to spin.
Who acts: spinner · What happens: mend, sit down, spin · To what, where: 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 (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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mended | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheel | det |
| 5 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mended | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mended | aux:pass |
| 7 | mended | mend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 sat | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 sat | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spinner | det |
| 11 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 sat | nsubj |
| 12 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mended | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 sat | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 spin | mark |
| 15 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sat | advcl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 mended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend | past · passive | the wheel | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the spinner | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spin | to-infinitive | the spinner 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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