Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 60

And see! the serpent, though hissing more furiously, drew slowly back its head, and as she plucked the flower fled, and at the same moment the whole scene changed.

Who acts: you, glance, flower, whole scene · What happens: see, hiss, draw, pluck, flee, change · To what, where: serpent, head

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 (you, glance, flower, whole scene), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 see	cc
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 serpent	det
5	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hissing	punct
7	though	though	SCONJ	_	8 hissing	mark
8	hissing	hiss	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 see	advcl
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 furiously	advmod
10	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	8 hissing	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 drew	punct
12	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 hissing	parataxis
13	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	14 back	advmod
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 drew	advmod
15	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 head	nmod:poss
16	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 drew	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 plucked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 plucked	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 plucked	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 plucked	nsubj
21	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 drew	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flower	det
23	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 fled	nsubj
24	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 plucked	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 changed	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 changed	cc
27	at	at	ADP	_	30 moment	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 moment	det
29	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 moment	amod
30	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 changed	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 scene	det
32	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 scene	amod
33	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 changed	nsubj
34	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 fled	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	imperative	you not said here	the serpent			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer serpent=Stimulus
2	hiss	gerund	you not said here			furiously property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	draw	past		serpent's head			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme
4	pluck	past	glance				tree rules
5	flee	past	the flower				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	change	past	the whole scene		moment		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 60

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 5, sentence 60