The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 97
But the guards fell asleep, the bonds loosed themselves, and the spinner spun on.
Who acts: guards, bonds · What happens: fall, loose, spin on · To what, where: bonds, 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 (guards, bonds), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 fell | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 guards | det |
| 3 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fell | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 loosed | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bonds | det |
| 8 | bonds | bond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 loosed | nsubj |
| 9 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 loosed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spinner | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spinner | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 spinner | det |
| 14 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 loosed | obl |
| 15 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 spinner | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 spun | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the guards | asleep property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | loose | past | the bonds | bonds = bond | the spinner obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient | |||
| 3 | spin on | participle | 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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