The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 63
In another minute the snake had reached her side, and to her surprise he spoke.
Who acts: feast, snake · What happens: reach, speak, surprise · To what, where: snake · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (feast, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 minute | case |
| 2 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 minute | det |
| 3 | minute | minute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | aux |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 side | nmod:poss |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 spoke | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 spoke | cc |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 surprise | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 14 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 spoke | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 spoke | nsubj |
| 16 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 reached | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past · perfect · passive | the snake | minute | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary side=Theme | ||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | feast | to snake's surprise | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to surprise=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | surprise | snake | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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