The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 26

When they had climbed about half-way up the hill they saw a terrible-looking monster with the body of a snake, and with huge wings and claws, coming towards them, breathing forth flames of fire, and preparing to seize its victim.

Who acts: shepherd, huge wings, fire · What happens: climb, see, look, come, breathe, prepare · To what, where: shepherd, looking monster, flames, victim

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shepherd, huge wings, fire), 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	ADV	PronType=Int	4 climbed	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	aux
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADV	_	8 way	advmod
6	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	8 way	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 half	punct
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
9	up	up	ADP	_	11 hill	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hill	det
11	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obl
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 hill	acl:relcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 monster	det
15	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 looking	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 terrible	punct
17	looking	look	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 monster	amod
18	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 body	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 body	det
21	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 monster	nmod
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 snake	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 snake	det
24	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 body	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wings	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wings	cc
27	with	with	ADP	_	29 wings	case
28	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 wings	amod
29	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 climbed	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 claws	cc
31	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wings	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 coming	punct
33	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 wings	acl
34	towards	towards	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 coming	obl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 breathing	punct
37	breathing	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 coming	conj
38	forth	forth	ADV	_	37 breathing	advmod
39	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 breathing	obj
40	of	of	ADP	_	41 fire	case
41	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 flames	nmod
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 preparing	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 preparing	cc
44	preparing	prepare	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 climbed	advcl
45	to	to	PART	_	46 seize	mark
46	seize	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 preparing	xcomp
47	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 victim	nmod:poss
48	victim	victim	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 seize	obj
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb	past · perfect · passive		shepherd	up the hill; with huge wings and claws; half way obl	vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
2	see	past	shepherd	a looking monster	with the body of a snake	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monster=Stimulus
3	look	gerund				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
4	come	gerund	huge wings and claws not said here		towards shepherd	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location
5	breathe	gerund	huge wings and claws not said here	flames of fire	forth property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flame=Theme
6	prepare	gerund				vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute
7	seize not said to happen	to-infinitive		fire's victim		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent victim=Theme
8	flame		fire			nom flame «process intransitive»: of=agent

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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