The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 71

There was a desperate clutching of the claws to the earth, a slow flagging of the great wings, then the monster rolled over on his side and moved no more.

Who acts: desperate clutching, monster · What happens: be, roll over, move · To what, where: side, more

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (desperate clutching, monster), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 clutching	det
4	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 clutching	amod
5	clutching	clutching	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 claws	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 claws	det
8	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clutching	nmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 earth	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 earth	det
11	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 claws	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 flagging	punct
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 flagging	det
14	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 flagging	amod
15	flagging	flagging	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clutching	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 wings	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 wings	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 wings	amod
19	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 flagging	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rolled	punct
21	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 rolled	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 monster	det
23	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rolled	nsubj
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
25	over	over	ADV	_	24 rolled	advmod
26	on	on	ADP	_	28 side	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 side	nmod:poss
28	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rolled	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 moved	cc
30	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 rolled	conj
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 more	advmod
32	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	30 moved	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a desperate clutching of the claws to the earth and a slow flagging of the great wings		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	roll over	past	the monster		prince's side	then	over property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory
3	move	past	the monster not said here	more				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent more=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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