The Green Fairy Book, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2, sentence 43
Thereupon he rushed at the Prince, brandishing an immense serpent which was coiled about his wrist.
Who acts: Giant, immense serpent · What happens: rush, brandish, be · To what, where: immense serpent
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Giant, immense serpent), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 3 rushed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 rushed | nsubj |
| 3 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Prince | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Prince | det |
| 6 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 rushed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 brandishing | punct |
| 8 | brandishing | brandish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rushed | advcl |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 serpent | det |
| 10 | immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 serpent | amod |
| 11 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brandishing | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 coiled | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coiled | cop |
| 14 | coiled | coiled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 serpent | acl:relcl |
| 15 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 wrist | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wrist | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wrist | wrist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coiled | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | Giant | at the Prince; thereupon property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prince=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | brandish | gerund | Giant not said here | a immense serpent | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | past | a immense serpent | about Giant's wrist; coiled property | tree rules |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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