The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 79

So the boy put the cap on his head, and hung the wallet round his waist, and the shining shield on his shoulders, and flew beyond the great river that lies coiled like a serpent round the whole world.

Who acts: boy · What happens: put, hang, shine, fly, coil · To what, where: cap, head, wallet, great river, whole world

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 (boy), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 put	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	nsubj
4	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 head	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 head	nmod:poss
9	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 put	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hung	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 hung	cc
12	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wallet	det
14	wallet	wallet	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obj
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 waist	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 waist	nmod:poss
17	waist	waist	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shield	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shield	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shield	det
21	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 shield	amod
22	shield	shield	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hung	obl
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 shoulders	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 shoulders	nmod:poss
25	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 shield	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 flew	cc
28	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 put	conj
29	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	32 river	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 river	det
31	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 river	amod
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 flew	obl
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 coiled	nsubj:pass
34	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 coiled	aux:pass
35	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 river	acl:relcl
36	like	like	ADP	_	38 serpent	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 serpent	det
38	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 coiled	obl
39	round	round	ADP	_	42 world	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 world	det
41	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 world	amod
42	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 coiled	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the boy	the cap	boy's head		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent cap=Theme on head=Destination
2	hang	past	the boy not said here	the wallet		round boy's waist; the shining shield on boy's shoulders obl	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wallet=Patient
3	shine	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fly	past	the boy not said here		the great river		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beyond river=Location
5	coil	present · passive		the great river	the whole world	like a serpent	vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme round world=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 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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