Celtic Fairy Tales, The Battle of the Birds, sentence 20

The snake was twined about the raven's neck, and the raven held the snake's throat in his beak, and it seemed as if the snake would get the victory over the raven.

Who acts: raven, it, snake · What happens: twine, hold, seem, get · To what, where: snake, throat, beak, victory, raven

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Battle of the Birds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raven, it, snake), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twined	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twined	aux:pass
4	twined	twine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	9 neck	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 raven	det
7	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neck	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 raven	case
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 twined	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 held	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 held	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 raven	det
13	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	nsubj
14	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twined	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snake	det
16	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 throat	nmod:poss
17	's	's	PART	_	16 snake	case
18	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 beak	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 beak	nmod:poss
21	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 held	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 seemed	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 seemed	cc
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 seemed	nsubj
25	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 twined	parataxis
26	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 get	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 snake	det
29	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 get	aux
31	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 seemed	ccomp
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 victory	det
33	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obj
34	over	over	ADP	_	36 raven	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 raven	det
36	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 get	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 twined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	twine	past · passive		the snake		about the raven's neck	vn coil-9.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme
2	hold	past	the raven	the snake's throat	snake's beak		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent throat=Theme in beak=Location
3	seem	past	it				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	get a condition, not said to happen	would	the snake	the victory	the raven		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer victory=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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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