The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 6
By-and-by the puma saw a small snake with a beautiful shining skin, lying coiled up at the foot of a tree.
What happens: see, coil up · To what, where: small snake, foot
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: 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 2 - | case |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 saw | cc |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 and | punct |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 puma | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 puma | det |
| 7 | puma | puma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 snake | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 snake | amod |
| 11 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 skin | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 skin | det |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 skin | amod |
| 15 | shining | shining | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 skin | compound |
| 16 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 coiled | punct |
| 18 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 coiled | aux:pass |
| 19 | coiled | coil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 saw | conj |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 coiled | compound:prt |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 foot | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 foot | det |
| 23 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 coiled | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 tree | det |
| 26 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 foot | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a small snake | by the puma; with a beautiful shining skin | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | coil up | gerund · passive | the foot of a tree | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: at foot=Trajectory |
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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