English Fairy Tales, Mouse and Mouser, sentence 5

I'm spinning old breeches, good body, good body I'm spinning old breeches, good body.

Who acts: I · What happens: spin · To what, where: old breeches

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Mouse and Mouser. 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	3 spinning	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 spinning	aux
3	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 breeches	amod
5	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 spinning	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 body	punct
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 body	amod
8	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breeches	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 body	punct
10	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 body	amod
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 breeches	conj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 spinning	nsubj
13	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 spinning	aux
14	spinning	spin	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 body	acl:relcl
15	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 breeches	amod
16	breeches	breech	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 spinning	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 body	punct
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 body	amod
19	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 breeches	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 spinning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spin	present · progressive	I	old breeches and good body and good body					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=Theme
2	spin	present · progressive	I	old breeches and good body					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent breech=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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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