The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Hag of the Rock, sentence 6
“What are you spinning to-night?”
Who acts: you · What happens: spin
This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Hag of the Rock. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 spinning | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spinning | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spinning | nsubj |
| 5 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 to | punct |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spinning | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin in a quote | present · progressive | you | night | What obj | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=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 Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (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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