The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 142

For in this river dwelt a serpent with seven heads, who threatened to lay waste the whole land by breathing fire and flame from his nostrils unless the king sent him every morning a man for his breakfast.

Who acts: seven heads, king · What happens: dwell, threaten, lay, breathe, send · To what, where: serpent, waste, fire, nostrils, man, brother

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (seven heads, king), 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 river	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 river	case
3	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 river	det
4	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dwelt	obl
5	dwelt	dwell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 serpent	det
7	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dwelt	obj
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 heads	case
9	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 heads	nummod
10	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dwelt	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 threatened	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 threatened	nsubj
13	threatened	threaten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 heads	acl:relcl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 lay	mark
15	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 threatened	xcomp
16	waste	waste	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 land	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 land	amod
19	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 lay	obj
20	by	by	SCONJ	_	21 breathing	mark
21	breathing	breathe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 lay	advcl
22	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 breathing	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 flame	cc
24	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fire	conj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 nostrils	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 nostrils	nmod:poss
27	nostrils	nostril	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 breathing	obl
28	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	31 sent	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 king	det
30	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	nsubj
31	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dwelt	advcl
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sent	obj
33	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	34 morning	det
34	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	obl:unmarked
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 man	det
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 sent	obj
37	for	for	ADP	_	39 breakfast	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 breakfast	nmod:poss
39	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 man	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dwelt	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dwell	past		a serpent				for this river; with seven heads	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme serpent=Location
2	threaten	past	seven heads						tree rules
3	lay not said to happen	to-infinitive	seven heads not said here	waste					vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent waste=Theme land=Destination
4	breathe	gerund	seven heads not said here	fire and flame		brother's nostrils			vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme
5	send a condition, not said to happen	past	the king	a man	brother		morning		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination man=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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