English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 45

For a third time he kissed the loathsome thing, and with a hiss and a roar the Laidly Worm reared back and before Childe Wynd stood his sister Margaret.

Who acts: change, Laidly Worm, Childe · What happens: kiss, rear back, stand · To what, where: loathsome thing, sister

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 (change, Laidly Worm, 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	For	for	ADP	_	4 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
3	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 time	amod
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kissed	obl
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 kissed	nsubj
6	kissed	kiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 thing	det
8	loathsome	loathsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 thing	amod
9	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 kissed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 reared	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 reared	cc
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 hiss	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 hiss	det
14	hiss	hiss	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 reared	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 roar	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 roar	det
17	roar	roar	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hiss	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Worm	det
19	Laidly	Laidly	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Worm	compound
20	Worm	Worm	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 reared	nsubj
21	reared	rear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 kissed	conj
22	back	back	ADV	_	21 reared	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stood	cc
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	27 stood	mark
25	Childe	Childe	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 stood	nsubj
26	Wynd	Wynd	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Childe	flat
27	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 reared	conj
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 sister	nmod:poss
29	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stood	iobj
30	Margaret	Margaret	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 sister	appos
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 kissed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	kiss	past	change	the loathsome thing		time		vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent
2	rear back	past	the Laidly Worm				with a hiss and a roar	vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past	Childe		Childe's sister			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sister=Stimulus

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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