The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 80
On one side he saw the glittering eye of a cruel tiger, on the other the gleaming teeth of a great she-wolf; here a huge bear growled fiercely, and there a horrible snake coiled itself in the grass at his feet.
Who acts: Iwanich, horrible snake · What happens: see, glitter, gleam, growl, coil · To what, where: glittering eye, one side, huge bear, side, grass
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Iwanich, horrible snake), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 side | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 side | nummod |
| 3 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 7 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 eye | amod |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tiger | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tiger | det |
| 11 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tiger | amod |
| 12 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eye | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 teeth | punct |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 teeth | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 teeth | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 teeth | amod |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 teeth | det |
| 18 | gleaming | gleam | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 teeth | amod |
| 19 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 wolf | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wolf | det |
| 22 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wolf | amod |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 wolf | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 she | punct |
| 25 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 teeth | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 here | punct |
| 27 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 bear | det |
| 29 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 bear | amod |
| 30 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 here | nsubj |
| 31 | growled | growl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 bear | acl |
| 32 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 31 growled | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 coiled | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 coiled | cc |
| 35 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 coiled | expl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 snake | det |
| 37 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 snake | amod |
| 38 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 coiled | nsubj |
| 39 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 40 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 coiled | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 grass | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 grass | det |
| 43 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 coiled | obl |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 46 feet | case |
| 45 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 46 feet | nmod:poss |
| 46 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 coiled | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Iwanich | the glittering eye of a cruel tiger | one side | on the other gleaming teeth of a great she wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer eye=Stimulus | ||
| 2 | glitter | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | gleam | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | growl | participle | a huge bear not said here | fiercely property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | coil | past | a horrible snake | side | the grass; there | at Iwanich's feet | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.agent V NP.theme PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Agent itself=Theme in grass=Source at foot=Trajectory |
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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