The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 7

Two eyes of flame came creeping nearer, nearer, and two fiery tongues were stretching themselves out closer, closer, to the little birds who were trembling and shuddering in the farthest corner of the nest.

Who acts: Two eyes, two fiery tongues, little birds · What happens: come, creep, stretch out, tremble, shudder · To what, where: eyes, farthest corner

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two eyes, two fiery tongues, little birds), 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	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 eyes	nummod
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 flame	case
4	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eyes	nmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	creeping	creep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 creeping	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nearer	punct
9	nearer	near	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 nearer	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stretching	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 stretching	cc
12	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 tongues	nummod
13	fiery	fiery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tongues	amod
14	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stretching	nsubj
15	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stretching	aux
16	stretching	stretch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
17	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 stretching	obj
18	out	out	ADP	_	16 stretching	compound:prt
19	closer	close	ADV	Degree=Cmp	16 stretching	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 closer	punct
21	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 stretching	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 birds	punct
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 birds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 birds	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 birds	amod
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 stretching	obl
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 trembling	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 trembling	aux
29	trembling	tremble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 birds	acl:relcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shuddering	cc
31	shuddering	shudder	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 trembling	conj
32	in	in	ADP	_	35 corner	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 corner	det
34	farthest	far	ADJ	Degree=Sup	35 corner	amod
35	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shuddering	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 nest	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 nest	det
38	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 corner	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Two eyes of flame				tree rules
2	creep	gerund	Two eyes of flame not said here			near property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	stretch out	past · progressive	two fiery tongues	eyes = eye		to the little birds result; close property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient to bird=Result
4	tremble	past · progressive	the little birds				vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	shudder	gerund	the little birds not said here		the farthest corner of the nest		vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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