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The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 101

Now the lot had fallen on her; and as she was just saying this a long fierce head of a cruel sea creature rose out of the waves and snapped at the girl.

Who acts: lot, girl, long fierce head · What happens: fall, be, rise, snap · To what, where: waves · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Terrible Head. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lot, girl, long fierce head), 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

advmoddetnsubjauxcaseoblpunctccmarknsubjcopadvmodadvclobjdetamodamodnsubjcasedetamodcompoundoblccompcasecasedetoblccconjcasedetoblpunctrootNowADVtheDETlotNOUNhadAUXfallenVERBonADPherPRON;PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJshePRONwasAUXjustADVsayingVERBthisPRONaDETlongADJfierceADJheadNOUNofADPaDETcruelADJseaNOUNcreatureNOUNroseVERBoutADPofADPtheDETwavesNOUNandCCONJsnappedVERBatADPtheDETgirlNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NownowADVPronType=Dem5 fallenadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 lotdet
3lotlotNOUNNumber=Sing5 fallennsubj
4hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 fallenaux
5fallenfallVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
6ononADP_7 hercase
7hershePRONCase=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 fallenobl
8;;PUNCT_14 sayingpunct
9andandCCONJ_14 sayingcc
10asasSCONJ_14 sayingmark
11sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs14 sayingnsubj
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 sayingcop
13justjustADV_14 sayingadvmod
14sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part5 fallenadvcl
15thisthisPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Dem14 sayingobj
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 headdet
17longlongADJDegree=Pos19 headamod
18fiercefierceADJDegree=Pos19 headamod
19headheadNOUNNumber=Sing25 rosensubj
20ofofADP_24 creaturecase
21aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art24 creaturedet
22cruelcruelADJDegree=Pos24 creatureamod
23seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing24 creaturecompound
24creaturecreatureNOUNNumber=Sing25 roseobl
25roseriseVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 sayingccomp
26outoutADP_29 wavescase
27ofofADP_29 wavescase
28thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art29 wavesdet
29waveswaveNOUNNumber=Plur25 roseobl
30andandCCONJ_31 snappedcc
31snappedsnapVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 roseconj
32atatADP_34 girlcase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 girldet
34girlgirlNOUNNumber=Sing31 snappedobl
35..PUNCT_5 fallenpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fallpast · perfectthe lotnowon girlvn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on she=Location
2be speech: assertpastgirlsay propertytree rules
3risepasta long fierce headthe wavesof a cruel sea creaturevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme of creature=Initial_Location out wave=Destination
4snappasta long fierce head not said hereat the girlvn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at girl=Location

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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