The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 24
‘Spindle, spindle, go and see, If my love will come to me.’
Who acts: Spindle, love, my · What happens: spindle, go, see, come, love · To what, where: me
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 (Spindle, love, my), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 spindle | punct |
| 2 | Spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spindle | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spindle | punct |
| 4 | spindle | spindle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 go | punct |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 spindle | conj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 see | cc |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spindle | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 spindle | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 come | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spindle | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 spindle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spindle | infinitive | Spindle | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Spindle not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | Spindle not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | come a condition, not said to happen | future | my love | me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=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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