The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 8
But just as the tongues had almost reached them, the lindworm gave a fearful cry, and turned and fell backwards.
Who acts: lindworm · What happens: reach, give, turn, fall · To what, where: tongues, fearful cry
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 (lindworm), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 gave | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 reached | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 reached | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tongues | det |
| 5 | tongues | tongue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 reached | aux |
| 7 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 8 reached | advmod |
| 8 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 gave | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 reached | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lindworm | det |
| 12 | lindworm | lindworm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 cry | det |
| 15 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 cry | amod |
| 16 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 gave | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fell | cc |
| 21 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | conj |
| 22 | backwards | backwards | ADV | _ | 21 fell | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the tongues | almost property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the lindworm | a fearful cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cry=Theme | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | the lindworm not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | fall | past | the lindworm not said here | backwards property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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