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title: ‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’ Who acts: Shuttle, my. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle, sentence 31

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‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’

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**Who acts:** Shuttle, my · **What happens:** weave, bring, love · **To what, where:** web, love

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shuttle, my), 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:pg7277:44:31
# text = ‘Shuttle, weave both web and woof, Bring my love beneath my roof.’
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Shuttle	shuttle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	weave	weave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	woof	woof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **weave** | infinitive | Shuttle | both web and woof |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material web=Product |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | Shuttle *not said here* | my love |  |  |  | beneath my roof | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent love=Theme |
| 3 | **love** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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