The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4, sentence 4
They all spent their time in spinning, and that is why the convent has this name.
Who acts: nuns, that, convent · What happens: spend, spin, be, have · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nuns, that, convent), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 spent | nsubj |
| 2 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 1 They | det |
| 3 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 time | nmod:poss |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spent | obj |
| 6 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 7 spinning | mark |
| 7 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 spent | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 why | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 why | cc |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 why | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 why | cop |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 spent | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 convent | det |
| 14 | convent | convent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | nsubj |
| 15 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 why | advcl:relcl |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 has | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past | nuns = nun | time | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spin | gerund | nuns = nun not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have | present | the convent | this name | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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