The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 9

When he approached the place he found that the dry grass and leaves were on fire, and on a tree, surrounded by flames, a snake was coiled, hissing with terror.

Who acts: shepherd, dry grass, snake · What happens: approach, find, be, surround, hiss · To what, where: place, fire, tree · Speech: someone speaks here

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, dry grass, snake), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 approached	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 approached	nsubj
3	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 found	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 approached	obj
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 found	nsubj
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fire	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 grass	det
10	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 grass	amod
11	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fire	nsubj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 leaves	cc
13	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grass	conj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fire	cop
15	on	on	ADP	_	16 fire	case
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 surrounded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 surrounded	cc
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 tree	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 tree	det
21	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 surrounded	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 tree	punct
23	surrounded	surround	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 found	ccomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	25 flames	case
25	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 surrounded	obl:agent
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 coiled	punct
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 snake	det
28	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 coiled	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 coiled	cop
30	coiled	coiled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 surrounded	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hissing	punct
32	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 coiled	advcl
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 terror	case
34	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 hissing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past	shepherd	the place			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme
2	find	past	shepherd				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	is	past	the dry grass and leaves		fire		tree rules
4	surround	participle			a tree		vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	a snake			coiled property	tree rules
6	hiss	gerund	a snake not said here			with terror	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with terror=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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