English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 18
Well, the woman she was done, and she took her spinning to the door to spin, and as she span she sang:
Who acts: woman, girl · What happens: be, take, spin, span, sing · To what, where: girl, door
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 (woman, girl), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 done | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 woman | det |
| 4 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | cop |
| 7 | done | done | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 took | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | parataxis |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | spinning | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 took | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spinning | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 spin | mark |
| 18 | spin | spin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 spinning | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 span | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 span | cc |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 span | mark |
| 22 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 span | nsubj |
| 23 | span | span | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 took | advcl |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 sang | nsubj |
| 25 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 span | ccomp |
| 26 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the woman | done property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | woman | girl | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | spin | gerund | woman not said here | the door | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to door=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | spin | to-infinitive | woman not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | span | infinitive | girl | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | past | girl | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=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: «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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