Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 57
At this moment the serpent head raised itself, terrible to behold; the scales of the coiled body seemed to bristle, and resembled a coat of mail; the vicious eyes burned in rage, and the sharp tongue pointed at them like a poisoned arrow.
Who acts: serpent head, scales, vicious eyes · What happens: raise, seem, bristle, resemble, burn, point · To what, where: head, coat, sharp tongue, rage
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpent head, scales, vicious eyes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 moment | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 head | det |
| 5 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 head | compound |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 raised | nsubj |
| 7 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 raised | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 terrible | punct |
| 10 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 raised | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 behold | case |
| 12 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 10 terrible | discourse |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 scales | det |
| 15 | scales | scale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 body | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 body | det |
| 18 | coiled | coiled | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 body | amod |
| 19 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 scales | nmod |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bristle | mark |
| 22 | bristle | bristle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 resembled | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 resembled | cc |
| 25 | resembled | resemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 raised | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 coat | det |
| 27 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 resembled | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mail | case |
| 29 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 coat | nmod | ||
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 burned | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 eyes | det |
| 32 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 eyes | amod |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 burned | nsubj |
| 34 | burned | burn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 raised | parataxis |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 rage | case |
| 36 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 burned | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 tongue | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 tongue | cc |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tongue | det |
| 40 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 tongue | amod |
| 41 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 burned | obl |
| 42 | pointed | point | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 tongue | acl |
| 43 | at | at | ADP | _ | 44 them | case |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 pointed | obl |
| 45 | like | like | ADP | _ | 48 arrow | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 arrow | det |
| 47 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 48 arrow | amod |
| 48 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 pointed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | raise | past | the serpent head | head | moment | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the scales of the coiled body | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | bristle | to-infinitive | the scales of the coiled body not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 4 | resemble | past | the serpent head not said here | a coat of mail | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | burn | participle | the vicious eyes | the sharp tongue | rage | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in rage=Location | |||
| 6 | point | participle | the sharp tongue not said here | at eyes = eye; like a poisoned arrow | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | poison | participle | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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