The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 2

On the ground lay a Snake, stiff and frozen with the cold.

What happens: lie, freeze · To what, where: Snake, ground

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 ground	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ground	det
3	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Snake	det
6	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 stiff	punct
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 frozen	cc
10	frozen	freeze	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 stiff	conj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 cold	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cold	det
13	cold	cold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 frozen	obl
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past		a Snake		the ground			tree rules
2	freeze	participle						with the cold	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with cold=Theme

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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