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title: As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hil… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hill, and came to its rock in the river. Who acts: Worm. A sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 1

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As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hill, and came to its rock in the river.

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**Who acts:** Worm · **What happens:** break, uncoil, come · **To what, where:** snaky twine, river

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This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Worm), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg14241:33:1
# text = As dawn broke, the Worm uncoiled its snaky twine from around the hill, and came to its rock in the river.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	dawn	dawn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
3	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Worm	worm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	uncoiled	uncoil	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	snaky	snaky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	twine	twine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	around	around	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past |  |  |  |  | dawn |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **uncoil** | past | the Worm | Worm's snaky twine |  |  |  | from the hill | vn separate-23.1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent twine=Patient from hill=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **come** | past |  |  |  | the river |  | to Worm's rock | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to rock=Initial\_Location |

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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.

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**Text:** «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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