English Fairy Tales, The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh, sentence 48
No sooner had he touched her than she shrivelled up and shrivelled up, till she became a huge ugly toad, with bold staring eyes and a horrible hiss.
Who acts: Childe, queen · What happens: touch, shrivell up, become · To what, where: queen, huge ugly toad
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, queen), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 touched | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | aux |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | nsubj |
| 5 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 touched | obj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 shrivelled | mark |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 shrivelled | nsubj |
| 9 | shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | advcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 shrivelled | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 shrivelled | cc |
| 12 | shrivelled | shrivell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 shrivelled | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 shrivelled | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 15 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 17 became | mark |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 touched | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 toad | det |
| 19 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 toad | amod |
| 20 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 toad | amod |
| 21 | toad | toad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 became | xcomp |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 eyes | punct |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 eyes | case |
| 24 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 eyes | amod |
| 25 | staring | staring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | compound |
| 26 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 became | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 hiss | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 hiss | det |
| 29 | horrible | horrible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 hiss | amod |
| 30 | hiss | hiss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 eyes | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 touched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | Childe | queen | soon property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme she=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | shrivell up | past | queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | shrivell up | participle | queen not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | become | past | queen | a huge ugly toad | with bold staring eyes and a horrible hiss | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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