The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 129

When the great snake is coming there springs up a wind, and blows the dust about, and this goes on till the great snake glides into the courtyard and calls for his dinner, which must always be ready for him in those big pots.

Who acts: great snake, this, dinner · What happens: come, spring up, blow, go on, glide, call · To what, where: wind, dust, courtyard, big pots · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great snake, this, dinner), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 coming	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
3	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 snake	amod
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 coming	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 coming	aux
6	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 springs	advcl
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 coming	advmod
8	springs	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 springs	compound:prt
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 wind	det
11	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 springs	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 blows	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 blows	cc
14	blows	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 springs	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 dust	det
16	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 blows	obj
17	about	about	ADV	_	14 blows	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 goes	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 goes	cc
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	21 goes	nsubj
21	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 springs	conj
22	on	on	ADV	_	21 goes	advmod
23	till	till	SCONJ	_	27 glides	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 snake	det
25	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 snake	amod
26	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 glides	nsubj
27	glides	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 goes	advcl
28	into	into	ADP	_	30 courtyard	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 courtyard	det
30	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 glides	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 calls	cc
32	calls	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 glides	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 dinner	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 dinner	nmod:poss
35	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 calls	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 ready	punct
37	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 ready	nsubj
38	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 ready	aux
39	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	41 ready	advmod
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 ready	cop
41	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 dinner	conj
42	for	for	ADP	_	43 him	case
43	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 ready	obl
44	in	in	ADP	_	47 pots	case
45	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	47 pots	det
46	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 pots	amod
47	pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 ready	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 springs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present · progressive	the great snake		there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	spring up	present		a wind			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wind=Theme
3	blow	present		the dust		about property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent dust=Patient
4	go on	present	this				vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	glide	present	the great snake		the courtyard		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into courtyard=Destination
6	call	present	the great snake not said here			for snake's dinner	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for dinner=Recipient
7	is	must	snake's dinner		that big pots	for snake; always, ready property	tree rules

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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