The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 35
The shuttle flew from side to side and the carpet seemed almost to grow of itself.
Who acts: shuttle, carpet · What happens: fly, seem, grow · To what, where: side
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, carpet), 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 shuttle | det |
| 2 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 side | case |
| 5 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 side | case |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seemed | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 carpet | det |
| 10 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 12 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 11 seemed | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 grow | mark |
| 14 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 itself | case |
| 16 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 grow | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the shuttle | side | to side | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from side=Initial_Location to side=Destination | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the carpet | almost property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | grow | to-infinitive | the carpet not said here | of shuttle | vn appear-48.1.1 «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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