The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch (28), sentence 57
In the meantime in the hut the cat was busy weaving the linen and tangling the threads as it wove.
Who acts: cat, linen · What happens: be, weave, tangle · To what, where: meantime, linen, threads
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch (28). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, linen), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 meantime | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 meantime | det |
| 3 | meantime | meantime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 busy | obl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 hut | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hut | det |
| 6 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 meantime | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cat | det |
| 8 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 busy | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 busy | cop |
| 10 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | weaving | weave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 busy | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 linen | det |
| 13 | linen | linen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 weaving | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tangling | cc |
| 15 | tangling | tangle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 weaving | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 threads | det |
| 17 | threads | thread | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 tangling | obj |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 wove | mark |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 wove | nsubj |
| 20 | wove | weave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tangling | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 busy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the cat | the meantime in the hut | busy property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | weave | gerund | the cat not said here | the linen | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent linen=Product | ||||
| 3 | tangle | gerund | the cat not said here | the threads | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | weave | past | linen | vn run-51.3.2 «NP 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 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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