More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 9

At last the Worm uncoiled itself, snorted its last foam of blood and fire, and rolled dying into the river, and was never seen more.

What happens: uncoil, snort, roll, die, not see · To what, where: Worm, last foam, river, more

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Worm	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Worm	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Worm	det
4	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 uncoiled	obl
5	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 uncoiled	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 snorted	punct
8	snorted	snort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uncoiled	conj
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 foam	nmod:poss
10	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 foam	amod
11	foam	foam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 snorted	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 blood	case
13	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foam	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 fire	cc
15	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 foam	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rolled	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 rolled	cc
18	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 uncoiled	parataxis
19	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 rolled	xcomp
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 river	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 dying	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seen	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seen	cc
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 seen	aux:pass
26	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	27 seen	advmod
27	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 rolled	conj
28	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	27 seen	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 uncoiled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	uncoil	past	Worm		at the last Worm	vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
2	snort	past	Worm's last foam of blood and fire			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foam=Patient
3	roll	past				tree rules
4	die	gerund		the river		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	not see	past · passive	more			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: more=Stimulus

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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