English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 38

So when Childe Wynd came rushing up to the Laidly Worm it made no attempt to stop him or hurt him, but just as he was going to raise his sword to slay it, the voice of his own sister Margaret came from its jaws saying:

Who acts: Childe, power, voice · What happens: come, rush up, make, stop, hurt, go · To what, where: attempt, Childe, sword, power, jaws · 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 (Childe, power, voice), 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	So	so	ADV	_	44 came	advmod
2	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
3	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
4	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Childe	flat
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 came	advcl
6	rushing	rush	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 came	xcomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 rushing	compound:prt
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Worm	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Worm	det
10	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Worm	compound
11	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rushing	obl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 made	nsubj
13	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Worm	acl:relcl
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 attempt	det
15	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 made	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stop	mark
17	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 attempt	acl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stop	obj
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 hurt	cc
20	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 stop	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 hurt	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 going	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 going	cc
24	just	just	ADV	_	28 going	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	28 going	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 going	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 raise	mark
30	raise	raise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 going	xcomp
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 sword	nmod:poss
32	sword	sword	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 raise	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 slay	mark
34	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 raise	advcl
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 slay	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 voice	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 voice	det
38	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 came	nsubj
39	of	of	ADP	_	42 sister	case
40	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 sister	nmod:poss
41	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 sister	amod
42	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 voice	nmod
43	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 sister	appos
44	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 saying	advcl
45	from	from	ADP	_	47 jaws	case
46	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 jaws	nmod:poss
47	jaws	jaw	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 came	obl
48	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	48 saying	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	Childe				tree rules
2	rush up	gerund	Childe not said here			to the Laidly Worm result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to worm=Result
3	make	past	power	no attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material attempt=Product
4	stop	to-infinitive	power not said here	Childe			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality
5	hurt	infinitive	power not said here	Childe			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Patient
6	go	past · progressive	Childe				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	raise	to-infinitive	Childe not said here	Childe's sword			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme
8	slay	to-infinitive	Childe not said here	power			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
9	come	past	the voice of Childe's own sister		power's jaws		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from jaw=Initial_Location
10	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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