The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 82

Swiftly she went back and felt everywhere with her whole hand, even putting her fingers into the tiniest crannies, where a crab could hardly have taken shelter.

Who acts: snake · What happens: go back, feel, put, take · To what, where: fingers, tiniest crannies, crab

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), 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	Swiftly	swiftly	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 felt	cc
6	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 felt	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 hand	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 hand	amod
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 felt	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 putting	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 putting	advmod
14	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 felt	advcl
15	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 fingers	nmod:poss
16	fingers	finger	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 putting	obj
17	into	into	ADP	_	20 crannies	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 crannies	det
19	tiniest	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 crannies	amod
20	crannies	cranny	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 putting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 taken	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 taken	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 crab	det
24	crab	crab	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taken	nsubj:pass
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 taken	aux
26	hardly	hardly	ADV	_	28 taken	advmod
27	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 taken	aux
28	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 crannies	acl:relcl
29	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 taken	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go back	past	snake			swiftly property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	feel	past	snake not said here			with snake's whole hand; everywhere property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	put	gerund	snake not said here	snake's fingers	the tiniest crannies		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent finger=Goal
4	take	could · perfect · passive		a crab		hardly property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme shelter=Destination

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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