The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 34
Then she threw the spindle into the well, and jumped in herself after it.
Who acts: girl · What happens: throw, jump · To what, where: spindle, well
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 threw | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 spindle | det |
| 5 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obj |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 threw | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 jumped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 jumped | cc |
| 11 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 threw | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 herself | case |
| 13 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 jumped | obl |
| 14 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 jumped | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | girl | the spindle | then | into the well result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer spindle=Theme into well=Result | ||
| 2 | jump | past | girl not said here | after well | in girl | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in herself=Trajectory |
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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