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title: The bullet rebounded without harming the spinner, who still spun on. — The Red Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The bullet rebounded without harming the spinner, who still spun on. Who acts: bullet, spinner. 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 91

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The bullet rebounded without harming the spinner, who still spun on.

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**Who acts:** bullet, spinner · **What happens:** rebound, harm, spin on · **To what, where:** spinner

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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 (bullet, spinner), 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:pg540:42:91
# text = The bullet rebounded without harming the spinner, who still spun on.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	bullet	bullet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rebounded	rebound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	harming	harm	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spinner	spinner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	still	still	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	spun	spin	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl:relcl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rebound** | past | the bullet |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **harm** | gerund | the bullet *not said here* | the spinner |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spinner=Experiencer |
| 3 | **spin on** | participle | the spinner |  |  |  | still |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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