More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 10, sentence 88

"We'll smother her--smother her!" whispered the Crawling Horrors, and twined themselves round her knees.

Who acts: We, Crawling Horrors · What happens: smother, whisper, twine · To what, where: Ho, Horrors, knees · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, Crawling Horrors), 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	_	4 smother	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 smother	nsubj
3	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 smother	aux
4	smother	smother	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 whispered	ccomp
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 smother	obj
6	--	--	PUNCT	_	7 smother	punct
7	smother	smother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 smother	obl
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 smother	nmod:unmarked
9	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 smother	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 smother	punct
11	whispered	whisper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Horrors	det
13	Crawling	Crawling	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Horrors	compound
14	Horrors	Horror	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 whispered	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 twined	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 twined	cc
17	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 whispered	conj
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 twined	obj
19	round	round	ADP	_	21 knees	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 knees	nmod:poss
21	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 twined	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 whispered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	smother in a quote	future	We		Ho		smother Ho obl	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Destination
2	whisper speech: express	past	the Crawling Horrors					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	twine	past	the Crawling Horrors not said here	Horrors = horror		Ho's knees		vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme round knee=Destination

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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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