The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 25
Lo, and behold! the spindle leapt from her hand and rushed out of the room, and when she had sufficiently recovered from her surprise to look after it she saw it dancing merrily through the fields, dragging a long golden thread after it, and soon it was lost to sight.
Who acts: girl, room · What happens: rush out, recover, look, see, dance, drag · To what, where: room, surprise, fields, long golden thread
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 (girl, room), 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 | Lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 13 rushed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 behold | cc |
| 4 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 1 Lo | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lo | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 leapt | det |
| 7 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | compound |
| 8 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lo | appos |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 hand | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leapt | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rushed | cc |
| 13 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 room | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 room | det |
| 17 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rushed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 recovered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 recovered | cc |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 recovered | advmod |
| 21 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 recovered | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 recovered | aux |
| 23 | sufficiently | sufficiently | ADV | _ | 24 recovered | advmod |
| 24 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 rushed | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 surprise | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 27 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 recovered | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 look | mark |
| 29 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 recovered | advcl |
| 30 | after | after | ADP | _ | 31 it | case |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 look | obl |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 saw | nsubj |
| 33 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 look | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 saw | obj |
| 35 | dancing | dance | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 saw | xcomp |
| 36 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 35 dancing | advmod |
| 37 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 fields | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fields | det |
| 39 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 dancing | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 dragging | punct |
| 41 | dragging | drag | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 dancing | conj |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 thread | det |
| 43 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 thread | amod |
| 44 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 thread | amod |
| 45 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 dragging | obj |
| 46 | after | after | ADP | _ | 47 it | case |
| 47 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 dragging | obl |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 53 lost | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 53 lost | cc |
| 50 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 53 lost | advmod |
| 51 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 lost | aux:pass |
| 53 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 rushed | conj |
| 54 | to | to | ADP | _ | 55 sight | case |
| 55 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 lost | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush out | past | the room | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Trajectory | |||||
| 2 | recover | past · perfect | girl | girl's surprise | sufficiently property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source | |||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | girl not said here | after room | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | see | past | girl | room | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | dance | gerund | room not said here | the fields | merrily property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Location | |||
| 6 | drag | gerund | room not said here | a long golden thread | after room | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thread=Theme | |||
| 7 | lose | past · passive | room | to sight; soon property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | surprise | girl | nom surprise «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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