--- title: But they ran away shrieking, and the Laidly Worm crawled and crept,… — English Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: But they ran away shrieking, and the Laidly Worm crawled and crept, and crept and crawled till it reached the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone, round which it coiled itself, and lay there basking with its terrible snout in the air. Who acts: Heugh, Laidly Worm, bed. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heugh, Laidly Worm, bed), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg7439:39:16 # text = But they ran away shrieking, and the Laidly Worm crawled and crept, and crept and crawled till it reached the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone, round which it coiled itself, and lay there basking with its terrible snout in the air. 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 2 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ran run VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 away away ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 5 shrieking shriek VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 Laidly Laidly PROPN NNP Number=Sing 10 compound _ _ 10 Worm Worm PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nsubj _ _ 11 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 crawled crawl VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ _ 19 till till SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 advcl _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 Heugh Heugh PROPN NNP Number=Sing 21 obj _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 conj _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 Spindlestone Spindlestone PROPN NNP Number=Sing 25 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 30 round round ADV RB _ 33 advmod _ _ 31 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 33 nsubj _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 33 coiled coil VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 acl:relcl _ _ 34 itself itself PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 37 cc _ _ 37 lay lay VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 38 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 37 advmod _ _ 39 basking bask VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 37 advcl _ _ 40 with with ADP IN _ 43 case _ _ 41 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 43 nmod:poss _ _ 42 terrible terrible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 43 amod _ _ 43 snout snout NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ _ 44 in in ADP IN _ 46 case _ _ 45 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 46 det _ _ 46 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 47 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **run away** | past | Heugh | | | | | away *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **shriek** | gerund | Heugh *not said here* | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **crawl** | past | the Laidly Worm | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **creep** | past | the Laidly Worm *not said here* | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **creep** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **crawl** | past | | | | | | | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **reach** | past | bed | the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent heugh=Theme | | 8 | **coil** | past | the Heugh or rock of the Spindlestone | bed | | | | round *property* | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent itself=Material | | 9 | **lay** | infinitive | | | | there | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 10 | **bask** | gerund | | | | | | with bed's terrible snout in the air | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/15/) - next →: [sentence 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/17/) - ↑ back to [The Laidly Worm of Spindleston Heugh](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7439/39/)