The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 31
‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’
Who acts: Shuttle, my · What happens: weave, bring, love · To what, where: web, love
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 (Shuttle, 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 weave | punct |
| 2 | Shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weave | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Shuttle | punct |
| 4 | weave | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 web | det |
| 6 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 woof | cc |
| 8 | woof | woof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 web | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bring | punct |
| 10 | Bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 weave | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 love | nmod:poss |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bring | obj |
| 13 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 15 roof | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 roof | nmod:poss |
| 15 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bring | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 weave | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 weave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weave | infinitive | Shuttle | both web and woof | vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material web=Product | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | Shuttle not said here | my love | beneath my roof | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent love=Theme | |||
| 3 | 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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