English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 43

Then Childe Wynd went up to the Laidly Worm and kissed it once; but no change came over it.

Who acts: Childe, change · What happens: go up, kiss, come · To what, where: set

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, change), 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	4 went	advmod
2	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 went	nsubj
3	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Childe	flat
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 went	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 Worm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Worm	det
8	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 Worm	compound
9	Worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 kissed	cc
11	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 kissed	obj
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 kissed	advmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 came	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 came	cc
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 change	det
17	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 came	nsubj
18	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	20 it	case
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 came	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go up	past	Childe			then	to the Laidly Worm	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	kiss	past	Childe not said here	set			once property	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent
3	come	past	no change		set			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over it=Initial_Location

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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