The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 15

Then the serpent made a rush at the youth with wide open jaws to swallow him at one gulp, but the young man leaped aside and drew his sword, and fought till he had cut off all the seven heads.

Who acts: serpent, young man, man · What happens: make, swallow, leap, draw, fight, cut off · To what, where: rush, youth, serpent, one gulp, sword, seven heads

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, young man, man), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 made	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rush	det
6	rush	rush	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 youth	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 youth	det
9	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 jaws	case
11	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jaws	amod
12	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 jaws	amod
13	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 made	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 swallow	mark
15	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 swallow	obj
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 gulp	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 gulp	nummod
19	gulp	gulp	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 swallow	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 leaped	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 leaped	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 man	det
23	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 man	amod
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 leaped	nsubj
25	leaped	leap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 made	conj
26	aside	aside	ADV	_	25 leaped	advmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 drew	cc
28	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 sword	nmod:poss
30	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 drew	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fought	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 fought	cc
33	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 made	conj
34	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 cut	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 cut	nsubj
36	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 cut	aux
37	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 fought	ccomp
38	off	off	ADP	_	42 heads	case
39	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 heads	det:predet
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 heads	det
41	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	42 heads	nummod
42	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 cut	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the serpent	a rush	the youth	then	with wide open jaws	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rush=Product
2	swallow	to-infinitive	the serpent not said here	serpent	one gulp			vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	leap	participle	the young man				aside property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	draw	past	the serpent not said here	man's sword				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
5	fight	past	the serpent not said here					tree rules
6	cut off	past · perfect	man	all seven heads				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality

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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