The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 70

‘Uncover me,’ and she lifted the lid, and the little grey snake slid rapidly to the ground.

Who acts: you, voice, little grey snake · What happens: uncover, lift, slide · To what, where: me, lid, ground

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, voice, little grey 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Uncover	punct
2	Uncover	uncover	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Uncover	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Uncover	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Uncover	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lifted	cc
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lifted	nsubj
8	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Uncover	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lid	det
10	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 slid	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 slid	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snake	det
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snake	amod
15	grey	grey	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 snake	amod
16	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slid	nsubj
17	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 lifted	conj
18	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	_	17 slid	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 ground	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 ground	det
21	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 slid	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Uncover	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	uncover	imperative	you not said here	me			tree rules
2	lift	past	voice	the lid			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lid=Theme
3	slide	past	the little grey snake		the ground	rapidly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to ground=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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