The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 46
The spindle, the shuttle, and the needle were carefully placed in the treasury, and were always held in the very highest honour.
What happens: place, hold · To what, where: spindle, treasury, highest honour
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: 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 spindle | det |
| 2 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shuttle | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shuttle | det |
| 5 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spindle | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 needle | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 needle | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 needle | det |
| 9 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spindle | conj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 placed | aux:pass |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 placed | advmod |
| 12 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 treasury | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 treasury | det |
| 15 | treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 placed | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 held | aux:pass |
| 19 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 20 held | advmod |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 placed | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 honour | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 honour | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 highest | advmod |
| 24 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 25 honour | amod |
| 25 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past · passive | the spindle and the shuttle and the needle | the treasury | carefully property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in treasury=Destination | |||
| 2 | hold | past · passive | the highest honour | always property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: in honour=Location |
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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