The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 33
On the threshold it began weaving the loveliest carpet that was ever seen.
Who acts: shuttle · What happens: begin, weave, see · To what, where: threshold, loveliest carpet
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), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 threshold | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 threshold | det |
| 3 | threshold | threshold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | obl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | weaving | weave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 began | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 carpet | det |
| 8 | loveliest | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 carpet | amod |
| 9 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 weaving | obj |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux:pass |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 seen | advmod |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 carpet | acl:relcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | shuttle | the threshold | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | weave | gerund | shuttle not said here | the loveliest carpet | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carpet=Product | ||||
| 3 | see | past · passive | the loveliest carpet | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
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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