The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 101

And they twined themselves about her and darted poison into her veins, and she died, and no man regretted her.

Who acts: serpents, lock, man · What happens: twine, dart, die, regret · To what, where: serpents, poison, veins, lock

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 (serpents, lock, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 twined	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twined	nsubj
3	twined	twine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 twined	obj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 twined	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 darted	cc
8	darted	dart	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twined	conj
9	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 darted	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 veins	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 veins	nmod:poss
12	veins	vein	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 darted	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 died	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 died	cc
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 died	nsubj
16	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twined	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 regretted	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 regretted	cc
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 man	det
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 regretted	nsubj
21	regretted	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 twined	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 regretted	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 twined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	twine	past	serpents = serpent	serpents = serpent		about lock	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme
2	dart	past	serpents = serpent not said here	poison	lock's veins		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent poison=Theme into vein=Trajectory
3	die	past	lock				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	regret	past	no man	lock			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

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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