More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 118

The Worm would hiss, and would rave, and lash its tail round the trees of the park, and in its fury it would uproot the stoutest oaks and the loftiest firs.

Who acts: Worm · What happens: hiss, rave, lash, uproot, infuriate · To what, where: tail, stoutest oaks, fury

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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Worm	det
2	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hiss	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hiss	aux
4	hiss	hiss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rave	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 rave	cc
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 rave	aux
8	rave	rave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hiss	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 lash	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 lash	cc
11	lash	lash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hiss	conj
12	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 tail	nmod:poss
13	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lash	obj
14	round	round	ADP	_	16 trees	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 trees	det
16	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lash	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 park	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 park	det
19	park	park	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 trees	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 uproot	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 uproot	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 fury	case
23	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 fury	nmod:poss
24	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 uproot	obl
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 uproot	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 uproot	aux
27	uproot	uproot	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hiss	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 oaks	det
29	stoutest	stout	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 oaks	amod
30	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 uproot	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 firs	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 firs	det
33	loftiest	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Sup	34 firs	amod
34	firs	fir	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 oaks	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hiss	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hiss	would	the Worm				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	rave speech: other	would	the Worm not said here				vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lash	infinitive	the Worm not said here	Worm's tail		round the trees of the park	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	uproot	would	Worm	the stoutest oaks and the loftiest firs	Worm's fury		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Theme
5	infuriate		Worm				nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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