The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 151

The second blow was not quite so straight, for the snake said to himself, ‘Who is that who is trying to scratch me?’ and stretched out his third head to see; but no sooner was the neck through the hole than the head went rolling to join the rest.

Who acts: second blow · What happens: be, scratch, stretch out, see, go, roll · To what, where: snake, me, third head, neck, hole, rest

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 (second blow), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 blow	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 blow	amod
3	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 went	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 straight	advmod
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	8 straight	advmod
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 straight	advmod
8	straight	straight	ADV	_	13 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 straight	punct
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 snake	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snake	det
12	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blow	acl:relcl
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 himself	case
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 blow	punct
17	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 trying	punct
18	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 trying	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 trying	cop
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 trying	mark
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 trying	nsubj
22	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 trying	aux
23	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 blow	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 scratch	mark
25	scratch	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 trying	xcomp
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 scratch	obj
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	23 trying	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	23 trying	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stretched	cc
30	stretched	stretch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 trying	conj
31	out	out	ADP	_	30 stretched	compound:prt
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 head	nmod:poss
33	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	34 head	amod
34	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stretched	obj
35	to	to	PART	_	36 see	mark
36	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 stretched	advcl
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	43 neck	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 neck	cc
39	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	40 sooner	det
40	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	43 neck	advmod
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 neck	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 neck	det
43	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blow	conj
44	through	through	ADP	_	46 hole	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 hole	det
46	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 neck	nmod
47	than	than	ADP	_	49 head	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 head	det
49	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 hole	nmod
50	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
51	rolling	roll	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	50 went	xcomp
52	to	to	PART	_	53 join	mark
53	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	51 rolling	xcomp
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 rest	det
55	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 join	obj
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	50 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the second blow but the neck not said here		snake		for the snake; say, straight property	tree rules
2	is	present · progressive	the second blow but the neck				try property	tree rules
3	scratch not said to happen	to-infinitive	the second blow but the neck not said here	me				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	stretch out	participle	the second blow but the neck not said here	snake's third head				vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient
5	see	to-infinitive	the second blow but the neck not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	the second blow but the neck not said here	the neck		the hole than the head	soon property	tree rules
7	go	past	the second blow but the neck					vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	roll	gerund	the second blow but the neck not said here					tree rules
9	join	to-infinitive	the second blow but the neck not said here	the rest				vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

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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