The Violet Fairy Book, The Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened, sentence 31
He thought that the serpent-king with the fiery crown had twined himself round him, and was crushing out his life.
Who acts: noise, serpent king · What happens: think, twine, crush out · To what, where: noise, life · 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 (noise, serpent king), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 twined | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 5 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 serpent | punct |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 twined | nsubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 crown | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 10 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 crown | amod |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 king | nmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 twined | aux |
| 13 | twined | twine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 twined | obj |
| 15 | round | round | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 twined | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 crushing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 crushing | cc |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 crushing | aux |
| 20 | crushing | crush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 thought | advcl |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 crushing | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 life | nmod:poss |
| 23 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 crushing | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | noise | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | twine | past · perfect | the serpent king with the fiery crown | noise | round noise | vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Theme round he=Destination | |||
| 3 | crush out | past · progressive | noise not said here | noise's life | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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