English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 16
But they ran away shrieking, and the Laidly Worm crawled and crept, and crept and crawled till it reached the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone, round which it coiled itself, and lay there basking with its terrible snout in the air.
Who acts: Heugh, Laidly Worm, bed · What happens: run away, shriek, crawl, creep, reach, coil · To what, where: 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 (Heugh, Laidly Worm, bed), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 ran | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 ran | advmod |
| 5 | shrieking | shriek | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 ran | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 crawled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 crawled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Worm | det |
| 9 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Worm | compound |
| 10 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 crawled | nsubj |
| 11 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 crept | cc |
| 13 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 crawled | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 crept | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 crept | cc |
| 16 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 crawled | cc |
| 18 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 crept | conj |
| 19 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 21 reached | mark |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reached | nsubj |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 crawled | advcl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Heugh | det |
| 23 | Heugh | Heugh | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 rock | cc |
| 25 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 Heugh | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Spindlestone | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Spindlestone | det |
| 28 | Spindlestone | Spindlestone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 rock | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 coiled | punct |
| 30 | round | round | ADV | _ | 33 coiled | advmod |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 coiled | nsubj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 coiled | nsubj |
| 33 | coiled | coil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 Heugh | acl:relcl |
| 34 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 coiled | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 lay | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 lay | cc |
| 37 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 ran | parataxis |
| 38 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 lay | advmod |
| 39 | basking | bask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 lay | advcl |
| 40 | with | with | ADP | _ | 43 snout | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 snout | nmod:poss |
| 42 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 snout | amod |
| 43 | snout | snout | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 basking | obl |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 air | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 air | det |
| 46 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 snout | nmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run away | past | Heugh | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shriek | gerund | Heugh not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | crawl | past | the Laidly Worm | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | creep | past | the Laidly Worm not said here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | creep | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | crawl | past | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | reach | past | bed | the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heugh=Theme | ||||
| 8 | coil | past | the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone | bed | round property | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent itself=Material | |||
| 9 | lay | infinitive | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 10 | bask | gerund | with bed's terrible snout in the air | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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