More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 13, sentence 57

"Did you hear any snake biting you in my oldest brother's bed?"

Who acts: you, snake · What happens: hear, bite · To what, where: snake, you, bed

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
2	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hear	obj
7	biting	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 snake	acl
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 biting	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 bed	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 brother	nmod:poss
11	oldest	old	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 brother	amod
12	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bed	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 brother	case
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 biting	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	past · do-support	you	any snake					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus
2	bite in a quote	gerund	any snake not said here	you		my oldest brother's bed			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Patient in bed=Location

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: «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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