The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 65

Save me from sun, and I will save you from rain,’ and she opened the pot, and when the snake had slipped in, she put on the cover.

Who acts: you, I, snake · What happens: save, open, slip in, put · To what, where: me, sun, you, rain, pot, cover

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 (you, I, 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	Save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Save	obj
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 sun	case
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Save	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 save	cc
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 save	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 save	aux
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Save	conj
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 save	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	12 rain	case
12	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 save	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 opened	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 opened	nsubj
17	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Save	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pot	det
19	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 opened	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 put	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 put	cc
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 slipped	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 snake	det
24	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 slipped	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 slipped	aux
26	slipped	slip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 put	advcl
27	in	in	ADV	_	26 slipped	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 slipped	punct
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 put	nsubj
30	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Save	parataxis
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 cover	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 cover	det
33	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Save	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	save	imperative	you not said here	me	sun	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent i=Theme from sun=Source
2	save	future	I	you	rain	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent you=Theme from rain=Source
3	open	past	snake	the pot		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pot=Theme
4	slip in	past · perfect	the snake			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	put	past	snake		the cover	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on cover=Destination

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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