The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 24

Then the lindorm began to writhe, and groan, and breathe heavily; and after a little he had cast his outer skin, which lay on the floor, hideous to behold.

Who acts: lindorm, sun, outer skin · What happens: begin, writhe, groan, breathe, cast, lie · To what, where: outer skin, floor

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lindorm, sun, outer skin), 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 began	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lindorm	det
3	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 began	nsubj
4	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 writhe	mark
6	writhe	writhe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 began	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 groan	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 groan	cc
9	groan	groan	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 writhe	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 breathe	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 breathe	cc
12	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 groan	conj
13	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	12 breathe	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 cast	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 cast	cc
16	after	after	ADP	_	18 little	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 little	det
18	little	little	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 cast	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 cast	aux
21	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 began	conj
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 skin	nmod:poss
23	outer	outer	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 skin	amod
24	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 cast	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lay	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 skin	acl:relcl
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 floor	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 floor	det
30	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lay	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 hideous	punct
32	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 floor	amod
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 behold	case
34	behold	behold	INTJ	_	32 hideous	discourse
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	the lindorm			then		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	writhe	to-infinitive	the lindorm not said here					vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	groan	infinitive	the lindorm not said here					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	breathe	infinitive	the lindorm not said here				heavily property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	cast	past · perfect	sun	sun's outer skin		after a little		vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Product
6	lie	past	sun's outer skin		the floor			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on floor=Location

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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