English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 18

For hunger drove the monster out from its cave and it used to devour everything it could come across.

Who acts: monster, everything · What happens: drive out, use, devour, come · To what, where: monster, cave

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 (monster, everything), 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	For	for	ADP	_	2 hunger	case
2	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
3	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 monster	det
5	monster	monster	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	3 drove	compound:prt
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 cave	nmod:poss
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drove	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 used	cc
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 used	nsubj
12	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drove	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 devour	mark
14	devour	devour	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 used	xcomp
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 come	nsubj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 come	aux
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 devour	ccomp
19	across	across	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 drove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drive out	past		the monster	monster's cave	for hunger	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent monster=Theme from cave=Trajectory
2	use	past	monster				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	devour	to-infinitive	monster not said here				tree rules
4	come	could	everything			across property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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