The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 41

The needle had barely put in its last stitch when the girl, glancing at the window, spied the white plumed hat of the King’s son who was being led back by the spindle with the golden thread.

Who acts: girl · What happens: put, glance, spy, plume, lead back · To what, where: needle, last stitch, white plumed hat, 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 (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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 needle	det
2	needle	needle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux
4	barely	barely	ADV	_	5 put	advmod
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 stitch	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 stitch	nmod:poss
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 stitch	amod
9	stitch	stitch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 spied	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 girl	det
12	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spied	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 glancing	punct
14	glancing	glance	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 girl	acl
15	at	at	ADP	_	17 window	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 window	det
17	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 glancing	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 girl	punct
19	spied	spy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	advcl
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 hat	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 hat	amod
22	plumed	plume	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 hat	amod
23	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 spied	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 son	case
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	23 hat	nmod
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 led	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 led	aux:pass
31	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 led	aux:pass
32	led	lead	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 son	acl:relcl
33	back	back	ADV	_	32 led	advmod
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 spindle	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spindle	det
36	spindle	spindle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 led	obl
37	with	with	ADP	_	40 thread	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 thread	det
39	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 thread	amod
40	thread	thread	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 spindle	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past · perfect · passive		the needle	window's last stitch	barely property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in stitch=Destination
2	glance	gerund	the girl not said here			at the window	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at window=Theme
3	spy	past	the girl	the white plumed hat of the King's son			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hat=Stimulus
4	plume	participle					tree rules
5	lead back	past · passive		the King's son		by the spindle with the golden thread	vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme by spindle=Destination

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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