More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 2

When it perceived the Childe waiting for it, it lashed the waters in its fury and wound its coils round the Childe, and then attempted to crush him to death.

Who acts: Worm · What happens: perceive, wait, lash, wound, attempt, crush · To what, where: Childe, waters, fury, coils, him

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 perceived	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 perceived	nsubj
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lashed	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Childe	det
5	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 perceived	obj
6	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 perceived	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 waiting	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 perceived	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 lashed	nsubj
11	lashed	lash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 waters	det
13	waters	water	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 lashed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 fury	case
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fury	nmod:poss
16	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lashed	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 wound	cc
18	wound	wound	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 lashed	conj
19	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 coils	nmod:poss
20	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wound	obj
21	round	round	ADP	_	23 Childe	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Childe	det
23	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 wound	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 attempted	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 attempted	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 attempted	advmod
27	attempted	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lashed	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 crush	mark
29	crush	crush	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 attempted	xcomp
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 crush	obj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 death	case
32	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 crush	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 lashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	perceive	past	Worm	the Childe				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer childe=Stimulus
2	wait	gerund	Worm not said here				for Worm	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	lash	past	Worm	the waters	Worm's fury			vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
4	wound	infinitive	Worm not said here	Worm's coils			round the Childe	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus coil=Experiencer
5	attempt	past	Worm not said here			then		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	crush not said to happen	to-infinitive	Worm not said here	him = he			to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result
7	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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