The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 50
Further along the path they saw the shining snake lying on the moss.
Who acts: men, shining snake · What happens: see, shine, lie · To what, where: shining snake, moss
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (men, shining snake), 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 | Further | further | ADV | _ | 6 saw | advmod |
| 2 | along | along | ADP | _ | 4 path | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 path | det |
| 4 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 snake | det |
| 8 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 snake | amod |
| 9 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 snake | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 moss | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 moss | det |
| 13 | moss | moss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lying | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | men = man | the shining snake | along the path; further property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the shining snake not said here | the moss | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on moss=Location |
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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