The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 159

Mad with rage, she seized the figure by the throat with both hands, when out came a black snake from her mouth and stung the woman’s tongue, and she fell dead without a sound.

Who acts: Mad rage, rage · What happens: seize, come, sting, fall · To what, where: figure, black snake, mouth, tongue

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mad rage, rage), 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 rage	amod
2	with	with	ADP	_	3 rage	case
3	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rage	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seized	nsubj
6	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 figure	det
8	figure	figure	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 throat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 throat	det
11	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seized	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hands	case
13	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	14 hands	det
14	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 seized	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 came	advmod
17	out	out	ADP	_	18 came	case
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seized	conj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 snake	det
20	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 snake	amod
21	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obj
22	from	from	ADP	_	24 mouth	case
23	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 mouth	nmod:poss
24	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	obl
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 stung	cc
26	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 came	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 woman	det
28	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 tongue	nmod:poss
29	’s	's	PART	_	28 woman	case
30	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stung	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 fell	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 fell	cc
33	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 fell	nsubj
34	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seized	conj
35	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fell	xcomp
36	without	without	ADP	_	38 sound	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 sound	det
38	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fell	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Mad rage	the figure		by the throat; with both hands	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent figure=Theme
2	come	past	Mad rage not said here	a black snake	rage's mouth		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location snake=Theme
3	sting	past	Mad rage not said here	the woman's tongue			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus tongue=Experiencer
4	fall	past	rage			without a sound; dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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