The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 26
The girl, having lost her spindle, took up the shuttle and, seating herself at her loom, began to weave.
Who acts: girl · What happens: have, lose, take up, seat, begin, weave · To what, where: spindle, shuttle, girl, loom
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 having | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 girl | acl |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 having | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spindle | nmod:poss |
| 7 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lost | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 girl | punct |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 took | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 shuttle | det |
| 12 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 seating | cc |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seating | punct |
| 15 | seating | seat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 took | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 seating | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 loom | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 loom | nmod:poss |
| 19 | loom | loom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seating | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 began | punct |
| 21 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 weave | mark |
| 23 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 began | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the girl not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | participle | the girl not said here | girl's spindle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spindle=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | take up | past | the girl | the shuttle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shuttle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seat | gerund | the girl not said here | girl | girl's loom | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location herself=Value | |||
| 5 | begin | past | the girl not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | weave | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | 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 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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