The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 36
As the shuttle had run away the girl sat down to sew.
Who acts: girl · What happens: run away, sit down, sew
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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 shuttle | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shuttle | det |
| 3 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 run | obl |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | aux |
| 5 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 run | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 girl | det |
| 8 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sat | nsubj |
| 9 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 run | parataxis |
| 10 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 sat | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 sew | mark |
| 12 | sew | sew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 sat | advcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past · perfect | as the shuttle; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | sit down | past | the girl | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | sew | to-infinitive | the girl not said here | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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