The Blue Fairy Book, The Terrible Head, sentence 81

Their golden wings were folded and their brass claws were crossed, and two of them slept with their hideous heads beneath their wings like birds, and the serpents in their hair writhed out from under the feathers of gold.

Who acts: two, serpents · What happens: fold, cross, sleep, writhe out · To what, where: golden wings, brass claws

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 (two, serpents), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wings	nmod:poss
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wings	amod
3	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 folded	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 folded	aux:pass
5	folded	fold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 crossed	cc
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 claws	nmod:poss
8	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 claws	compound
9	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 crossed	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 crossed	aux:pass
11	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 folded	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slept	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slept	cc
14	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 slept	nsubj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 two	nmod
17	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 folded	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	21 heads	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 heads	nmod:poss
20	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 heads	amod
21	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 slept	obl
22	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	24 wings	case
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 wings	nmod:poss
24	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 heads	nmod
25	like	like	ADP	_	26 birds	case
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 wings	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 writhed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 writhed	cc
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 serpents	det
30	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 writhed	nsubj
31	in	in	ADP	_	33 hair	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 hair	nmod:poss
33	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 serpents	nmod
34	writhed	writhe	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 folded	conj
35	out	out	ADP	_	34 writhed	compound:prt
36	from	from	ADP	_	39 feathers	case
37	under	under	ADP	_	39 feathers	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 feathers	det
39	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 writhed	obl
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 gold	case
41	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 feathers	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 folded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fold	past · passive		rivers's golden wings		vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
2	cross	past · passive		rivers's brass claws		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	sleep	past	two of rivers		with rivers's hideous heads beneath rivers's wings like birds	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	writhe out	participle	the serpents in wings's hair		from the feathers of gold	vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from feather=Stimulus

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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