English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 24
“My darter ha' spun five, five skeins to-day.
What happens: spin · To what, where: darter
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 spun | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 darter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | darter | darter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 spun | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | ha | ha | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 3 darter | nmod:unmarked |
| 5 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 darter | punct |
| 6 | spun | spin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 spun | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 skeins | punct |
| 9 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 skeins | nummod |
| 10 | skeins | skein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spun | obl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 to | punct |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skeins | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 spun | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin in a quote | participle · passive | My darter ha | five skeins to day obl | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP ADJ.result»: subject=Theme five=Result |
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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