The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 2, sentence 89

In his hand he carried a whip made of twenty long snakes, all alive and writhing, and the Princess was so terrified at the sight that she heartily wished she had never come.

Who acts: crocodile, Princess · What happens: carry, make, be, wish, not come · To what, where: whip, hand, sight · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crocodile, Princess), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 hand	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hand	nmod:poss
3	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 carried	nsubj
5	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whip	det
7	whip	whip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carried	obj
8	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 whip	acl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 snakes	case
10	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 snakes	nummod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 snakes	amod
12	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 made	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 writhing	punct
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 writhing	det
15	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 writhing	amod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 writhing	cc
17	writhing	writhing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 whip	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 terrified	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 terrified	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Princess	det
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 terrified	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 terrified	cop
23	so	so	ADV	_	24 terrified	advmod
24	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 carried	conj
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 sight	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sight	det
27	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 terrified	obl
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 wished	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 wished	nsubj
30	heartily	heartily	ADV	_	31 wished	advmod
31	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 terrified	advcl
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 come	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 come	aux
34	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 come	advmod
35	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 wished	ccomp
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry	past	crocodile	a whip and all alive writhing	crocodile's hand		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent whip=Value in hand=Location
2	make	participle		a whip and all alive writhing not said here		of twenty long snakes	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	is	past	the Princess		the sight	terrified property	tree rules
4	wish	past	Princess			heartily property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
5	not come	past	Princess				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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