The Yellow Fairy Book, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3, sentence 90
It stretched its huge head, in which the eyes glittered fiercely, among the branches, searching for the nest in which the little children lay.
Who acts: serpent, eyes, little children · What happens: stretch, glitter, search, lay · To what, where: huge head, nest
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Glass Mountain(16), part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent, eyes, little children), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stretched | nsubj |
| 2 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 head | nmod:poss |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 head | amod |
| 5 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stretched | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glittered | punct |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 which | case |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 glittered | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 eyes | det |
| 10 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glittered | nsubj |
| 11 | glittered | glitter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stretched | conj |
| 12 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 11 glittered | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 branches | punct |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 branches | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 branches | det |
| 16 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 glittered | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 searching | punct |
| 18 | searching | search | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 glittered | advcl |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 nest | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 nest | det |
| 21 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 searching | obl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 lay | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 children | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 children | amod |
| 26 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 lay | nsubj |
| 27 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 nest | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stretched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch | past | serpent | serpent's huge head | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | glitter | past | the eyes | among the branches; fiercely property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | search | gerund | the eyes not said here | for the nest | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.theme NP.location»: agent=Agent for nest=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | the little children | the nest | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in which=Destination |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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