English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 36
But instead of that, he only rounded the next point and landed safe and sound in Budle Creek, and then, with sword drawn and bow bent, rushed up followed by his men, to fight the terrible Worm that had kept him from landing.
Who acts: Childe · What happens: round, land, draw, bend, rush up, follow · To what, where: next point, Budle Creek, sword, terrible Worm, landing
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 (Childe), 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 | _ | 8 rounded | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 that | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 rounded | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rounded | nsubj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 rounded | advmod |
| 8 | rounded | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 point | det |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 point | amod |
| 11 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rounded | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 landed | cc |
| 13 | landed | land | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 rounded | conj |
| 14 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 landed | xcomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 sound | cc |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 landed | conj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 Creek | case |
| 18 | Budle | Budle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Creek | compound |
| 19 | Creek | Creek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 landed | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sword | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 sword | cc |
| 22 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 sword | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sword | punct |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 sword | case |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rounded | obl |
| 26 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 sword | acl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bent | cc |
| 28 | bow | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 bent | aux:pass |
| 29 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 drawn | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 rushed | punct |
| 31 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 drawn | conj |
| 32 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 rushed | compound:prt |
| 33 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 rushed | conj |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 36 men | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 men | nmod:poss |
| 36 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 followed | obl:agent |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 fight | punct |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 fight | mark |
| 39 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 rounded | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Worm | det |
| 41 | terrible | terrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 Worm | amod |
| 42 | Worm | worm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 fight | obj |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 kept | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 kept | aux |
| 45 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 42 Worm | acl:relcl |
| 46 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 kept | obj |
| 47 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 landing | case |
| 48 | landing | landing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 kept | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round | past | Childe | the next point | instead that; with sword | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent point=Patient with sword=Instrument | |||
| 2 | land | past | Childe not said here | Budle Creek | safe property | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in creek=Destination | |||
| 3 | draw | participle | sword not said here | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bend | present · passive | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V» | ||||||
| 5 | rush up | participle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | follow | participle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | fight | to-infinitive | Childe not said here | the terrible Worm | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent worm=Co-Agent | ||||
| 8 | keep | past · perfect · passive | the terrible Worm | landing | vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme he=Attribute |
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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