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title: When it perceived the Childe waiting for it, it lashed the waters in… — More English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: When it perceived the Childe waiting for it, it lashed the waters in its fury and wound its coils round the Childe, and then attempted to crush him to death. 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
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# More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 19, sentence 2

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When it perceived the Childe waiting for it, it lashed the waters in its fury and wound its coils round the Childe, and then attempted to crush him to death.

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**Who acts:** Worm · **What happens:** perceive, wait, lash, wound, attempt, crush · **To what, where:** Childe, waters, fury, coils, him

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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:pg14241:33:2
# text = When it perceived the Childe waiting for it, it lashed the waters in its fury and wound its coils round the Childe, and then attempted to crush him to death.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	perceived	perceive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	lashed	lash	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	waters	water	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	wound	wound	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	conj	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	coils	coil	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	round	round	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Childe	Childe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	attempted	attempt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	crush	crush	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **perceive** | past | Worm | the Childe |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer childe=Stimulus |
| 2 | **wait** | gerund | Worm *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for Worm | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lash** | past | Worm | the waters |  | Worm's fury |  |  | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient |
| 4 | **wound** | infinitive | Worm *not said here* | Worm's coils |  |  |  | round the Childe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus coil=Experiencer |
| 5 | **attempt** | past | Worm *not said here* |  |  |  | then |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **crush** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Worm *not said here* | him *= he* |  |  |  | to death *result* | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result |
| 7 | **infuriate** |  | Worm |  |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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