The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 28

The lindorm now lay before her as a formless, slimy mass, which she with all her might began to scrub with the lye and new scrubbing brushes.

Who acts: lindorm · What happens: lie, begin, scrub

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), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lindorm	det
2	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
3	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	before	before	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	12 mass	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 mass	det
9	formless	formless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mass	amod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 formless	punct
11	slimy	slimy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 mass	amod
12	mass	mass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 she	punct
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 she	nsubj
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 began	nsubj
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 her	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 her	det:predet
18	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 she	obl
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 began	aux
20	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mass	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 scrub	mark
22	scrub	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 began	xcomp
23	with	with	ADP	_	25 lye	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 lye	det
25	lye	lye	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 scrub	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 brushes	cc
27	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 brushes	amod
28	scrubbing	scrub	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 brushes	amod
29	brushes	brush	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 lye	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the lindorm	before skin; now	as a formless slimy mass	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before she=Location
2	begin	might	lindorm			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	scrub	to-infinitive	lindorm not said here		with the lye and new scrubbing brushes	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
4	scrub	gerund				vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/33/28/