The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 100

At length, however, the lock gave way, and the lid flew open, when, O horror! instead of gold and jewels, she saw before her serpents with glittering eyes and forky tongues.

Who acts: lock, lid · What happens: give, fly, see, glitter · To what, where: way, length

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lock, lid), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 length	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	8 gave	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lock	det
7	lock	lock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	nsubj
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gave	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 flew	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 flew	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 lid	det
13	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 flew	nsubj
14	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
15	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 flew	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 when	punct
17	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 flew	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 horror	punct
19	O	o	INTJ	_	20 horror	discourse
20	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 when	appos
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 horror	punct
22	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	24 gold	case
23	of	of	ADP	_	22 instead	fixed
24	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horror	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 jewels	cc
26	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 gold	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 saw	punct
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 saw	nsubj
29	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 gave	conj
30	before	before	ADP	_	32 serpents	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 serpents	nmod:poss
32	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 saw	obl
33	with	with	ADP	_	35 eyes	case
34	glittering	glitter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	35 eyes	amod
35	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 serpents	nmod
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 tongues	cc
37	forky	forky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 tongues	amod
38	tongues	tongue	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 eyes	conj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	the lock	way	length		however property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent way=Theme at length=Asset
2	fly	past	the lid				open property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	lock			before lock's serpents with glittering eyes and forky tongues		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	glitter	gerund						vn light_emission-43.1 «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 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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