The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 126

They rode across the desert on tall camels; the lions roared with thirst, and the great crocodiles with their grey lizard heads and sharp white teeth gaped up out of the river.

Who acts: people, lions, great crocodiles · What happens: ride, roar, gape up · To what, where: desert

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 (people, lions, great crocodiles), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 rode	nsubj
2	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	across	across	ADP	_	5 desert	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 desert	det
5	desert	desert	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 rode	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 camels	case
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 camels	amod
8	camels	camel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 rode	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 roared	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lions	det
11	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 roared	nsubj
12	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 thirst	case
14	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 roared	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 gaped	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 gaped	cc
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 crocodiles	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 crocodiles	amod
19	crocodiles	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 gaped	nsubj
20	with	with	ADP	_	24 heads	case
21	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 heads	nmod:poss
22	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 heads	amod
23	lizard	lizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 heads	compound
24	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 crocodiles	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 teeth	cc
26	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 teeth	amod
27	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 teeth	amod
28	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heads	conj
29	gaped	gape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 rode	conj
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 gaped	compound:prt
31	out	out	ADP	_	34 river	case
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 river	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 river	det
34	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 gaped	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 rode	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	ride	past	people	the desert	on tall camels	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent across desert=Trajectory
2	roar	past	the lions		with thirst	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with thirst=Theme
3	gape up	past	the great crocodiles with people's grey lizard heads and sharp white teeth		out the river	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out river=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 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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