English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 37
But the moment Childe Wynd had landed, the witch-queen's power over the Laidly Worm had gone, and she went back to her bower all alone, not an imp, nor a man-at-arms to help her, for she knew her hour was come.
Who acts: Worm · What happens: land, go, go back, help, know, come · To what, where: moment, power, imp, Worm, hour · 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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 landed | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moment | det |
| 3 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 landed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 moment | appos |
| 5 | Wynd | Wynd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Childe | flat |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 landed | aux |
| 7 | landed | land | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 power | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 queen | det |
| 10 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 queen | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 witch | punct |
| 12 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 queen | case |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 18 Worm | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Worm | det |
| 17 | Laidly | Laidly | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Worm | compound |
| 18 | Worm | Worm | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 gone | obl |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 landed | parataxis |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 landed | conj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 bower | case |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 bower | nmod:poss |
| 28 | bower | bower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | all | all | ADV | _ | 30 alone | advmod |
| 30 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 imp | punct |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 imp | advmod |
| 33 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 imp | det |
| 34 | imp | imp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 man | punct |
| 36 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 38 man | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 man | det |
| 38 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 landed | conj |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 arms | punct |
| 40 | at | at | ADP | _ | 42 arms | case |
| 41 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 at | punct |
| 42 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 man | appos |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 help | mark |
| 44 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 arms | acl:relcl |
| 45 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 help | obj |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 knew | punct |
| 47 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 49 knew | mark |
| 48 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 knew | nsubj |
| 49 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 help | parataxis |
| 50 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 hour | nmod:poss |
| 51 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 come | nsubj |
| 52 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 53 come | aux:pass |
| 53 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 49 knew | ccomp |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 landed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | land | past · perfect · passive | the moment | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V ADVP»: subject=Destination | |||||
| 2 | go | past · perfect | the witch queen's power | over the Laidly Worm | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over worm=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | go back | past | Worm | a imp | to Worm's bower result; alone property | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bower=Result | |||
| 4 | help | to-infinitive | Worm | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | |||||
| 5 | know | past | Worm | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | come | past · passive | Worm's hour | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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