The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 17

So he set off through the wood carrying the snake, and after a time he came to a great gateway, made entirely of snakes intertwined one with another.

Who acts: snake, wood, snakes · What happens: set off, carry, come, make, intertwine · To what, where: wood, snake, great gateway, one

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, wood, snakes), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 set	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 set	nsubj
3	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 set	compound:prt
5	through	through	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 set	obl
8	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 wood	acl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 carrying	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 came	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 came	cc
13	after	after	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 came	nsubj
17	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 set	conj
18	to	to	ADP	_	21 gateway	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 gateway	det
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 gateway	amod
21	gateway	gateway	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 came	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 made	punct
23	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 gateway	acl
24	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	23 made	advmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 snakes	case
26	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 made	obl
27	intertwined	intertwine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 snakes	acl
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 intertwined	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	30 another	case
30	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	28 one	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 set	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set off	past	snake		the wood			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location
2	carry	gerund	the wood not said here	the snake				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Theme
3	come	past	snake		a great gateway	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to gateway=Initial_Location
4	make	participle		a great gateway not said here			of snakes; entirely property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
5	intertwine	participle	snakes not said here	one			with another	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent one=Patient with another=Co-Patient

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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