The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 96

Feeling that while she was spinning he was dying, the Count ordered that her hands should be tied, and that they should not lose sight of her for one instant.

Who acts: Count, Renelde, wheel, backs · What happens: feel, spin, die, order, tie, not lose · To what, where: hands, sight, Renelde

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 (Count, Renelde, wheel, backs), 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	Feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ordered	advcl
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 spinning	mark
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	6 spinning	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 spinning	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spinning	aux
6	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Feeling	advcl
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 dying	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dying	aux
9	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 spinning	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Feeling	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Count	det
12	Count	Count	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 ordered	nsubj
13	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 tied	mark
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 hands	nmod:poss
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 tied	nsubj:pass
17	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tied	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 tied	aux:pass
19	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 ordered	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 lose	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 lose	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 lose	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 lose	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 lose	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 lose	advmod
26	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 ordered	conj
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lose	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 her	case
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 sight	nmod
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 instant	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 instant	nummod
32	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 lose	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ordered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feel	gerund	the Count not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	spin	past · progressive	Renelde			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	die	past · progressive	wheel			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	order	past	the Count			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	tie not said to happen	should · passive		Renelde's hands		vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
6	not lose	should	backs = back	sight of Renelde	for one instant	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Eventuality
7	sight			Renelde		nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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