The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 152

When six of his heads were gone the snake lashed his tail with such fury that the gazelle and the old woman could not see each other for the dust he made.

Who acts: snake, gazelle · What happens: go, lash, not see, make · To what, where: six, tail, each, dust

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 (snake, gazelle), 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	SCONJ	_	7 gone	mark
2	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 gone	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 heads	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 heads	nmod:poss
5	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 six	nmod
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux:pass
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 lashed	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snake	det
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lashed	nsubj
10	lashed	lash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tail	nmod:poss
12	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lashed	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 fury	case
14	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fury	amod
15	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lashed	obl
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 see	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gazelle	det
18	gazelle	gazelle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	nsubj
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 woman	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 woman	det
21	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 woman	amod
22	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gazelle	conj
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 see	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 see	advmod
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 fury	acl
26	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	25 see	obj
27	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 each	fixed
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 dust	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 dust	det
30	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 see	obl
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 made	nsubj
32	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dust	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 lashed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past · passive		six of snake's heads		vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	lash	past	the snake	snake's tail	with such fury	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=Destination with fury=Theme
3	not see	could	the gazelle and the old woman	each	for the dust	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus
4	make	past	snake	the dust not said here		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dust=Product

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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