English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 15

And when her maidens came in to dress her in the morning they found coiled up on the bed a dreadful dragon, which uncoiled itself and came towards them.

Who acts: maidens, dreadful dragon · What happens: come in, dress, coil up, uncoil, come · To what, where: maiden, Heugh, bed

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maidens, dreadful dragon), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	8 dress	cc
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 maidens	nmod:poss
4	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dress	advcl
6	in	in	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dress	mark
8	dress	dress	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dress	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 morning	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 morning	det
12	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dress	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 coiled	nsubj
14	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 coiled	aux:pass
15	coiled	coil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 morning	acl:relcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 coiled	compound:prt
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 bed	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bed	det
19	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coiled	obl
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 dragon	det
21	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dragon	amod
22	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 coiled	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 uncoiled	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 uncoiled	nsubj
25	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dragon	acl:relcl
26	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 uncoiled	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 came	cc
28	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 uncoiled	conj
29	towards	towards	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 came	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 dress	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come in	past	Worm's maidens					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	dress	to-infinitive		maiden		morning		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	coil up	past · passive		Heugh	the bed		a dreadful dragon obl	vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: subject=Material
4	uncoil	past	a dreadful dragon	bed				vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
5	come	past	a dreadful dragon not said here				towards Heugh	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards they=Initial_Location

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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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