The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 79

She held her breath as the snake drew near, and watched it throw up its head again as if it was smelling something nice, while its forky tongue darted out greedily.

Who acts: princess, snake, head, forky tongue · What happens: hold, draw, watch, throw up, smell, dart out · To what, where: breath, snake, head, something

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, snake, head, forky tongue), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 held	nsubj
2	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 breath	nmod:poss
4	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 held	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	8 drew	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drew	nsubj
8	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	advcl
9	near	near	ADV	_	8 drew	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 watched	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 watched	cc
12	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 held	parataxis
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 watched	obj
14	throw	throw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 watched	xcomp
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 throw	compound:prt
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 head	nmod:poss
17	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 throw	obj
18	again	again	ADV	_	14 throw	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 smelling	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	23 smelling	mark
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 smelling	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 smelling	aux
23	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 throw	advcl
24	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 smelling	obj
25	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 something	amod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 darted	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	31 darted	mark
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 tongue	nmod:poss
29	forky	forky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 tongue	amod
30	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 darted	nsubj
31	darted	dart	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 watched	conj
32	out	out	ADP	_	31 darted	compound:prt
33	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	31 darted	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 held	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past	princess	princess's breath			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
2	draw	past	the snake			near property	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	watch	past		snake			tree rules
4	throw up	infinitive	snake not said here	snake's head	again		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent head=Theme
5	smell	past · progressive	head	something			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer something=Stimulus
6	dart out	participle	head's forky tongue			greedily property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «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 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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