The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 34

The three chips which he flung into the river became a boat, and, as he steered across the stream, the serpent put up its head and hissed loudly.

Who acts: man, three chips, serpent · What happens: fling, become, steer, put up, hiss · To what, where: three chips, river, boat, stream, head

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, three chips, serpent), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chips	det
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 chips	nummod
3	chips	chip	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 became	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 flung	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flung	nsubj
6	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chips	acl:relcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 flung	obl
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 boat	det
12	boat	boat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 steered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 steered	cc
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 and	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 steered	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 steered	nsubj
18	steered	steer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	advcl
19	across	across	ADP	_	21 stream	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 stream	det
21	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 steered	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 serpent	det
24	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	nsubj
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	parataxis
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 put	compound:prt
27	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 head	nmod:poss
28	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obj
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 hissed	cc
30	hissed	hiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 put	conj
31	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	30 hissed	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fling	past	man	the three chips	the river		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent which=Theme into river=Destination
2	become	past	the three chips	a boat			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	steer	past	man		the stream		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent across stream=Destination
4	put up	past	the serpent	serpent's head			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
5	hiss	past	the serpent not said here			loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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