The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 5
I leave you my cottage, which will, at least, shelter you, and also my spindle, my weaver’s shuttle, and my needle, with which to earn your bread.’
Who acts: I · What happens: leave, shelter, earn · To what, where: you, least, bread
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | nsubj |
| 2 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 leave | obj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cottage | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 will | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 will | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 cottage | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shelter | punct |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 least | case |
| 11 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 shelter | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 least | punct |
| 13 | shelter | shelter | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | conj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 shelter | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spindle | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spindle | cc |
| 17 | also | also | ADV | _ | 19 spindle | advmod |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 spindle | nmod:poss |
| 19 | spindle | spindle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 shuttle | punct |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 weaver | nmod:poss |
| 22 | weaver | weaver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 shuttle | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 weaver | case |
| 24 | shuttle | shuttle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 spindle | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 needle | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 needle | cc |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 needle | nmod:poss |
| 28 | needle | needle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 leave | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 earn | punct |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 earn | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 earn | mark |
| 33 | earn | earn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 leave | parataxis |
| 34 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 bread | nmod:poss |
| 35 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 earn | obj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | present | I | you | my needle obl | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Theme cottage=Attribute | |||
| 2 | shelter | infinitive | I not said here | you | least | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient at least=Location | |||
| 3 | earn | to-infinitive | your bread | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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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