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title: When the thread of the nettles was spun she wove it with her shuttle… — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the thread of the nettles was spun she wove it with her shuttle, and then cut the shroud and began to sew it. Who acts: Renelde. A sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 148

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When the thread of the nettles was spun she wove it with her shuttle, and then cut the shroud and began to sew it.

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**Who acts:** Renelde · **What happens:** spin, weave, cut, begin, sew · **To what, where:** thread, shroud

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This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Renelde), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg540:42:148
# text = When the thread of the nettles was spun she wove it with her shuttle, and then cut the shroud and began to sew it.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	8	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	thread	thread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	nettles	nettle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	advcl	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	wove	weave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	18	advmod	_	_
18	cut	cut	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	shroud	shroud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	sew	sew	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin** | past · passive |  | the thread of the nettles |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **weave** | past | Renelde | thread |  |  |  | with Renelde's shuttle | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 3 | **cut** | infinitive |  | the shroud |  |  | then |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset shroud=Product |
| 4 | **begin** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sew** | to-infinitive |  | thread |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |

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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.

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**Text:** «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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