The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 30
The shepherd did as he was told, then the King of the Snakes spat again into the shepherd’s mouth.
Who acts: Snakes · What happens: tell, spat · To what, where: shepherd, King, mouth · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 shepherd | det |
| 2 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 told | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 King | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 King | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 spat | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Snakes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Snakes | det |
| 14 | Snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 spat | nsubj |
| 15 | spat | spat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | ccomp |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 spat | advmod |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 mouth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 shepherd | det |
| 19 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 shepherd | case |
| 21 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 spat | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive · do-support | the shepherd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | spat | present | the Snakes | the King | the shepherd's mouth | again | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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