English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 102
And what was that doing, but that had a little spinning-wheel, and that was spinning wonderful fast, and twirling that's tail.
Who acts: that · What happens: do, have, spin, twirl, be · To what, where: little spinning wheel, tail
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Tom Tit Tot. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 doing | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 doing | obj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | aux |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 doing | mark |
| 5 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 had | cc |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 had | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 doing | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 wheel | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wheel | amod |
| 12 | spinning | spinning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wheel | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 spinning | punct |
| 14 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 spinning | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 spinning | cc |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 spinning | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 spinning | aux |
| 19 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | advcl |
| 20 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 spinning | xcomp |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 spinning | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 twirling | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 twirling | cc |
| 24 | twirling | twirl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 doing | advcl |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 tail | det |
| 26 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 tail | cop |
| 27 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 twirling | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 doing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · progressive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 2 | have | past | that | a little spinning wheel | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheel=Patient | ||||
| 3 | spin | past · progressive | that | fast, wonderful property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | twirl | gerund | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is a | present | that tail | 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: «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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