Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 56
She is the spinner of the Arnstein, doomed to spin on till her web breaks, when her spirit will be set free.
Who acts: wife, web, spirit · What happens: be, doom, spin, break · To what, where: spinner
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, web, spirit), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spinner | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 spinner | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spinner | det |
| 4 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Arnstein | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Arnstein | det |
| 7 | Arnstein | Arnstein | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spinner | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 doomed | punct |
| 9 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 spinner | conj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 spin | mark |
| 11 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 doomed | xcomp |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 spin | obl |
| 13 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 16 breaks | mark |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 web | nmod:poss |
| 15 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 breaks | nsubj |
| 16 | breaks | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 spin | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 free | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 free | advmod |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 20 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 free | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 free | aux |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 free | cop |
| 23 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 free | amod |
| 24 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 breaks | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spinner | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | wife | the spinner | of the Arnstein | tree rules | |||
| 2 | doom | participle | wife not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | spin | to-infinitive | wife not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | break | present | wife's web | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | future | wife's spirit | free property | tree rules |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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