English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 33

As the ship came near, the Worm unfolded its coils, and dipping into the sea, caught hold of the ship of Childe Wynd, and banged it off the shore.

Who acts: Worm · What happens: come, unfold, dip, catch, bang, hold · To what, where: coils, sea, ship, shore

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 (Worm), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 ship	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ship	det
3	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 unfolded	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Worm	det
8	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 unfolded	nsubj
9	unfolded	unfold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 coils	nmod:poss
11	coils	coil	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unfolded	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 banged	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 banged	cc
14	dipping	dip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 banged	advcl
15	into	into	ADP	_	17 sea	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sea	det
17	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dipping	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 hold	punct
19	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hold	amod
20	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sea	appos
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 ship	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ship	det
23	ship	ship	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hold	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Childe	case
25	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 ship	nmod
26	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Childe	flat
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 banged	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 banged	cc
29	banged	bang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 banged	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	33 shore	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 shore	det
33	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 banged	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past				as the ship; near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	unfold	past	the Worm	ship's coils			vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coil=Patient
3	dip	gerund			the sea		vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into sea=Location
4	catch	participle					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	bang	past		ship	the shore		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme off shore=Trajectory
6	hold			the ship of Childe			nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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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