More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 15, sentence 80
Then, again, the fire vanished and an adder was skipping through her arms, but still she held on; and then they turned him into a snake that reared up as if to bite her, and yet she held on.
Who acts: fire, adder, arms, snake · What happens: vanish, skip, hold on, turn, rear up, bite · To what, where: arms, adder, fire
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire, adder, arms, snake), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 again | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 vanished | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 again | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fire | det |
| 6 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 vanished | nsubj |
| 7 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 skipping | cc |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 adder | det |
| 10 | adder | adder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 skipping | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 skipping | aux |
| 12 | skipping | skip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 vanished | conj |
| 13 | through | through | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 skipping | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 held | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 held | nsubj |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 held | compound:prt |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 turned | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 turned | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 26 turned | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turned | nsubj |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 turned | obj |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 30 snake | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 snake | det |
| 30 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obl |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 reared | nsubj |
| 32 | reared | rear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 snake | acl:relcl |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 32 reared | compound:prt |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 37 bite | mark |
| 35 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 37 bite | mark |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 bite | mark |
| 37 | bite | bite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 reared | advcl |
| 38 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 bite | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 held | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 held | cc |
| 41 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 43 held | advmod |
| 42 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 held | nsubj |
| 43 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 vanished | conj |
| 44 | on | on | ADP | _ | 43 held | compound:prt |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | the fire | again | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | skip | past · progressive | a adder | fire's arms | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through arm=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | hold on | past | fire | still | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | turn | past | arms = arm | adder | then | into a snake result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Theme into snake=Result | ||
| 5 | rear up | past | a snake | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bite | to-infinitive | a snake not said here | fire | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 7 | hold on | past | fire | yet | 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: «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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