The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 98
Burchard had every nettle rooted up for three leagues round.
Who acts: Burchard · What happens: have, root up · To what, where: nettle
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 (Burchard), 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 | Burchard | Burchard | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 nettle | det |
| 4 | nettle | nettle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 nettle | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 rooted | compound:prt |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 leagues | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 leagues | nummod |
| 9 | leagues | league | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 rooted | obl |
| 10 | round | round | ADV | _ | 9 leagues | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Burchard | every nettle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nettle=Patient | ||||
| 2 | root up | participle | every nettle not said here | for three leagues | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for league=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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