More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 116

But when it sniffed the milk, it turned aside to the trough and swallowed all the milk up, and then slowly turned round and crossed the river Wear, and coiled its bulk three times round the Worm Hill for the night.

Who acts: Worm, it · What happens: sniff, turn, swallow up, turn round, cross, coil · To what, where: milk, trough, river Wear, bulk

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, it), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 sniffed	advmod
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sniffed	nsubj
4	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 milk	det
6	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sniffed	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 turned	nsubj
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	aside	aside	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 trough	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 trough	det
13	trough	trough	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 turned	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 swallowed	cc
15	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 milk	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 milk	det
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swallowed	obj
19	up	up	ADP	_	15 swallowed	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 turned	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 turned	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 turned	advmod
23	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	24 turned	advmod
24	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	parataxis
25	round	round	ADV	_	24 turned	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 crossed	cc
27	crossed	cross	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 turned	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Wear	det
29	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 Wear	compound
30	Wear	Wear	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 crossed	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 coiled	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 coiled	cc
33	coiled	coil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 turned	conj
34	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 bulk	nmod:poss
35	bulk	bulk	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coiled	obj
36	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 times	nummod
37	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 coiled	obl:unmarked
38	round	round	ADP	_	41 Hill	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 Hill	det
40	Worm	Worm	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Hill	compound
41	Hill	Hill	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 coiled	obl
42	for	for	ADP	_	44 night	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 night	det
44	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 coiled	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	Worm	the milk				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Theme
2	turn	past	it		the trough		aside property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to trough=Trajectory
3	swallow up	past		all milk				vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent milk=Patient
4	turn round	past				then	round, slowly property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
5	cross	past		the river Wear				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wear=Patient
6	coil	past		Worm's bulk		night; time	round the Worm Hill	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent bulk=Theme round hill=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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