The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 18

At the same moment all the hillocks began to writhe and to crawl, and from each one came hundreds of serpents and made straight for the glow, where they knew they should find their king.

Who acts: hillocks · What happens: begin, writhe, crawl, come, make, know · To what, where: hundreds, king · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hillocks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 moment	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moment	det
3	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moment	amod
4	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	obl
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 hillocks	det:predet
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hillocks	det
7	hillocks	hillock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 writhe	mark
10	writhe	writhe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crawl	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 crawl	mark
13	crawl	crawl	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 writhe	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 came	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 came	cc
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 one	case
17	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	18 one	det
18	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 came	obl
19	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 began	parataxis
20	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 came	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 serpents	case
22	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 hundreds	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 made	cc
24	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 came	conj
25	straight	straight	ADV	_	28 glow	advmod
26	for	for	ADP	_	28 glow	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 glow	det
28	glow	glow	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 made	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 knew	punct
30	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	32 knew	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 glow	acl:relcl
33	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 find	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 find	aux
35	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 knew	ccomp
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 king	nmod:poss
37	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 find	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	all hillocks		moment		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	writhe	to-infinitive	all hillocks not said here				vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	crawl	to-infinitive	all hillocks not said here				vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past		hundreds of serpents		from each one	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hundred=Theme
5	make	participle				for the glow	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for glow=Asset
6	know	past	hillocks = hillock				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	find	should	hillocks = hillock	hillocks's king			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic

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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