The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 59
Instantly the Serpent uncoiled itself from his neck, and, as it touched the damp earth, it resumed the shape of the lovely damsel.
Who acts: Serpent · What happens: uncoil, touch, resume · To what, where: Serpent, damp earth, shape
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent), 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 | Instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 4 uncoiled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Serpent | det |
| 3 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 uncoiled | nsubj |
| 4 | uncoiled | uncoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 uncoiled | obj |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 neck | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 neck | nmod:poss |
| 8 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uncoiled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 resumed | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 resumed | cc |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 and | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 touched | mark |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 touched | nsubj |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 resumed | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 16 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 earth | amod |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 resumed | nsubj |
| 20 | resumed | resume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uncoiled | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shape | det |
| 22 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 resumed | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 damsel | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 damsel | det |
| 25 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 damsel | amod |
| 26 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shape | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uncoiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uncoil | past | the Serpent | Serpent | from rock's neck; instantly property | vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient from neck=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | touch | past | Serpent | the damp earth | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | resume | past | Serpent | the shape of the lovely damsel | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Eventuality |
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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