The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 12

Then the shepherd stretched his staff out over the flames and the snake wound itself round the staff and up to his hand, and from his hand it crept up his arm, and twined itself about his neck.

Who acts: shepherd, staff · What happens: stretch out, creep up, twine · To what, where: staff, flames, arm, hand

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, staff), 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 stretched	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	nsubj
4	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 staff	nmod:poss
6	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obj
7	out	out	ADV	_	4 stretched	advmod
8	over	over	ADP	_	10 flames	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flames	det
10	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 stretched	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 wound	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wound	det
13	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wound	compound
14	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 flames	conj
15	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	14 wound	nmod:unmarked
16	round	round	ADP	_	18 staff	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 staff	det
18	staff	staff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stretched	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hand	cc
20	up	up	ADV	_	23 hand	advmod
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 hand	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 hand	nmod:poss
23	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 staff	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 crept	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 crept	cc
26	from	from	ADP	_	28 hand	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 hand	nmod:poss
28	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crept	obl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 crept	nsubj
30	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	conj
31	up	up	ADP	_	30 crept	compound:prt
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 arm	nmod:poss
33	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 crept	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 twined	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 twined	cc
36	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stretched	conj
37	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	36 twined	obj
38	about	about	ADP	_	40 neck	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 neck	nmod:poss
40	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 twined	obl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	the shepherd	shepherd's staff	the flames and the snake wound wound	then	round the staff and shepherd's hand; out property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent staff=Patient
2	creep up	past	staff	shepherd's arm	shepherd's hand			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hand=Trajectory
3	twine	past	the shepherd not said here	staff			about shepherd's neck	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent itself=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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