More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 107

And all day long it would lie coiled round a rock in the middle of the stream, while at night it came forth from the river and harried the country side.

Who acts: Worm · What happens: lie, coil, come, harry · To what, where: rock, river, country side

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 lie	cc
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lie	obl:unmarked
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 day	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 lie	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	aux
7	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 lie	xcomp
9	round	round	ADP	_	11 rock	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 rock	det
11	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coiled	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 middle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 middle	det
14	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rock	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 stream	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stream	det
17	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 middle	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
19	while	while	SCONJ	_	23 came	mark
20	at	at	ADP	_	21 night	case
21	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lie	parataxis
24	forth	forth	ADV	_	23 came	advmod
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 river	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 river	det
27	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 harried	cc
29	harried	harry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 side	det
31	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 side	compound
32	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 harried	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lie	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	would	Worm			day		tree rules
2	coil	participle	Worm not said here		a rock in the middle of the stream			vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme round rock=Destination
3	come	past	Worm		the river	night	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from river=Initial_Location
4	harry	past	Worm not said here	the country side				vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

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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