The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 15

But the snake answered: “Have no fear; only carry me home to my father who is the King of the Snakes.”

Who acts: snake, father · What happens: answer, have, carry, be · To what, where: fear, snake, father, King · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, father), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 answered	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 Have	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 Have	punct
7	Have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 fear	det
9	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 Have	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 carry	punct
11	only	only	ADV	_	12 carry	advmod
12	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 Have	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 carry	obj
14	home	home	ADV	_	12 carry	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 father	case
16	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 father	nmod:poss
17	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carry	obl
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 King	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 King	cop
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 King	det
21	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 father	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Snakes	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Snakes	det
24	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 King	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 Have	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 Have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the snake				tree rules
2	have in a quote	infinitive		no fear			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient
3	carry in a quote	infinitive		the snake = snake	my father	home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent i=Theme to father=Destination
4	is a in a quote	present	my father	the King		of the Snakes	tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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