The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 66
Soon she beheld another snake coming after the other one, and when it had reached her it stopped and said, ‘Did you see a small grey snake pass this way just now?’
Who acts: snake, pot, you · What happens: behold, come, reach, stop, say, see · To what, where: snake, pot, small grey snake, way · 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 (snake, pot, you), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beheld | obj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 snake | acl |
| 7 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 one | det |
| 9 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 one | amod |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 stopped | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 stopped | cc |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 reached | mark |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 reached | aux |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 stopped | advcl |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 stopped | nsubj |
| 19 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beheld | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 said | cc |
| 21 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stopped | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 23 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 24 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 said | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 snake | det |
| 28 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 snake | amod |
| 29 | grey | grey | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 snake | amod |
| 30 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 see | obj |
| 31 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 see | conj |
| 32 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 way | det |
| 33 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pass | obj |
| 34 | just | just | ADV | _ | 35 now | advmod |
| 35 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 pass | advmod |
| 36 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 beheld | punct |
| 37 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | snake | another snake | soon property | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | come | gerund | another snake not said here | after the other one | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reach | past · perfect · passive | pot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stop | past | pot | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | pot not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | see | past · do-support | you | a small grey snake | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | pass | infinitive | you not said here | this way | now | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=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 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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