English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 20

Then he consulted his works and his familiar, and told them: “The Laidly Worm is really the Princess Margaret and it is hunger that drives her forth to do such deeds.

Who acts: Spindleston, Laidly Worm, warlock, hunger · What happens: consult, tell, be, drive, do, work · To what, where: works, Princess Margaret, hunger, Worm, such deeds · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Spindleston, Laidly Worm, warlock, hunger), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 consulted	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 consulted	nsubj
3	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 works	nmod:poss
5	works	work	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 consulted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 familiar	cc
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 familiar	nmod:poss
8	familiar	familiar	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 consulted	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 told	cc
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 consulted	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 Margaret	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 Margaret	punct
15	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Worm	det
16	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 Worm	compound
17	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Margaret	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 Margaret	cop
19	really	really	ADV	_	22 Margaret	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Margaret	det
21	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 Margaret	compound
22	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 told	ccomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hunger	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hunger	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hunger	cop
26	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 Margaret	conj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 drives	nsubj
28	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 hunger	acl:relcl
29	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 drives	obj
30	forth	forth	ADV	_	28 drives	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 drives	advcl
33	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 deeds	amod
34	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 do	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 consulted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	consult	past	Spindleston	Spindleston's works		then		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	Spindleston not said here		works = work			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	the Laidly Worm	the Princess Margaret and hunger				tree rules
4	is a in a quote	present	warlock	hunger				tree rules
5	drive in a quote	present	hunger	Worm			forth property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
6	do in a quote	to-infinitive	hunger not said here	such deeds				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
7	work		Spindleston					nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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: «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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