The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 106

An enormous cobra which had crept up the stem of a tall palm tree threw itself on to a little llama that was grazing at the foot.

Who acts: enormous cobra, little llama · What happens: creep up, throw on, graze, stem · To what, where: enormous cobra, stem, little llama, foot, tall palm tree

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (enormous cobra, little llama), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cobra	det
2	enormous	enormous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 cobra	amod
3	cobra	cobra	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	nsubj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 crept	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crept	aux
6	crept	creep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 cobra	acl:relcl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 crept	compound:prt
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stem	det
9	stem	stem	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crept	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
12	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
13	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tree	compound
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stem	nmod
15	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 threw	obj
17	on	on	ADP	_	15 threw	compound:prt
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 llama	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 llama	det
20	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 llama	amod
21	llama	llama	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 threw	obl
22	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 grazing	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 grazing	aux
24	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 llama	acl:relcl
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 foot	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 foot	det
27	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grazing	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	creep up	past · perfect · passive		a enormous cobra			tree rules
2	throw on	past	a enormous cobra	stem	a little llama		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent itself=Theme to llama=Destination
3	graze	past · progressive	a little llama			the foot	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	stem			a tall palm tree			nom stem «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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