The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 27
Meantime the spindle danced on and on, and just as it had come to the end of the golden thread, it reached the King’s son.
Who acts: spindle, shuttle · What happens: meantime, dance, come, reach · To what, where: end, son
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, shuttle), 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 | Meantime | meantime | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 danced | ccomp |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 spindle | det |
| 3 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 danced | nsubj |
| 4 | danced | dance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 danced | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 on | cc |
| 7 | on | on | ADV | _ | 5 on | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 come | cc |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 come | advmod |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 come | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 danced | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 end | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 end | det |
| 17 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 come | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 thread | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 thread | det |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 thread | amod |
| 21 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 end | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 reached | punct |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reached | nsubj |
| 24 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 danced | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 King | det |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 son | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 King | case |
| 28 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 reached | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 danced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meantime | infinitive | the spindle not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dance | past | the spindle | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past · perfect | shuttle | to the end of the golden thread | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | shuttle | the King's son | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent son=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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