The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3, sentence 64

Luckily for himself the serpents were all away for the afternoon, at a meeting of their own, for there is nothing a serpent likes so well for dinner as a nice plump rabbit.

Who acts: serpents, nothing, meeting · What happens: be, like

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (serpents, nothing, meeting), 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	Luckily	luckily	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 himself	case
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	1 Luckily	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 serpents	det
5	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 away	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 away	cop
7	all	all	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	26 likes	advmod
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 afternoon	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 afternoon	det
11	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 away	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 meeting	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 meeting	det
15	meeting	meeting	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 likes	nsubj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 own	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 own	nmod:poss
18	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 meeting	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 is	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 is	case
21	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 is	expl
22	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 meeting	parataxis
23	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	22 is	nsubj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 serpent	det
25	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 nothing	appos
26	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 well	advmod
28	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 likes	advmod
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 dinner	case
30	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 likes	obl
31	as	as	ADP	_	35 rabbit	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 rabbit	det
33	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rabbit	amod
34	plump	plump	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 rabbit	amod
35	rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 likes	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 likes	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the serpents		afternoon	all, away, luckily property	tree rules
2	be	present	nothing	there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	like	present	a meeting of serpents's own			for dinner; as a nice plump rabbit; well property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for dinner=Attribute

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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