More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 5
Then the Worm unwound itself, and left the Childe free to use his sword.
Who acts: Worm · What happens: unwind, leave, use · To what, where: Worm, sword
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 unwound | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Worm | det |
| 3 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 unwound | nsubj |
| 4 | unwound | unwind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 unwound | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 left | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 left | cc |
| 8 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 unwound | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 free | det |
| 10 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 free | compound |
| 11 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 left | xcomp |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 use | mark |
| 13 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 free | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 sword | nmod:poss |
| 15 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 use | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 unwound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | unwind | past | the Worm | Worm | then | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient | |||
| 2 | leave | past | the Worm not said here | free property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | use | to-infinitive | the Worm not said here | deeper's sword | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=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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