The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 21
Whether the thread was quite as even as usual I really cannot say, but she went on spinning till the King’s son had ridden off.
Who acts: thread, I, girl · What happens: be, not say, go, spin, ride off · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thread, I, 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 usual | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thread | det |
| 3 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 usual | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 usual | cop |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 as | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 usual | advmod |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 usual | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 usual | case |
| 9 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 say | advcl |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 say | nsubj |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 14 say | advmod |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 say | advmod |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 say | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 20 spinning | mark |
| 20 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 went | advcl |
| 21 | till | till | ADP | _ | 25 son | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 King | det |
| 23 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 King | case |
| 25 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 ridden | obl |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 ridden | aux |
| 27 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 spinning | ccomp |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 ridden | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the thread | usual property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | can | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go | past | girl | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | spin | gerund | girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | ride off | past · perfect | girl not said here | till the King's son | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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