English Fairy Tales, Tom Tit Tot, sentence 36

There was nothing in it but a spinning-wheel and a stool.

Who acts: nothing · What happens: be

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 (nothing), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 was	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nothing	nmod
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 wheel	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 wheel	det
8	spinning	spinning	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wheel	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 spinning	punct
10	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 stool	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 stool	det
13	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 nothing	conj
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	nothing			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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