More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 1

As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hill, and came to its rock in the river.

Who acts: Worm · What happens: break, uncoil, come · To what, where: snaky twine, river

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. 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	As	as	ADP	_	2 dawn	case
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obl
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 uncoiled	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Worm	det
6	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uncoiled	nsubj
7	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 twine	nmod:poss
9	snaky	snaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 twine	amod
10	twine	twine	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uncoiled	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 hill	case
12	around	around	ADP	_	14 hill	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hill	det
14	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 uncoiled	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 broke	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 rock	case
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 rock	nmod:poss
20	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 river	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 river	det
23	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past				dawn		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	uncoil	past	the Worm	Worm's snaky twine			from the hill	vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent twine=Patient from hill=Co-Patient
3	come	past			the river		to Worm's rock	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial_Location

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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