The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 81

‘Go in once more,’ said the snake, ‘and feel everywhere, even among the trees that have their roots in the water, lest perhaps he may be held fast there.’

Who acts: trees · What happens: go in, say, feel, have, hold · To what, where: snake, trees, roots, water, baby · 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 (trees), 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 Go	punct
2	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 said	ccomp
3	in	in	ADV	_	2 Go	advmod
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 more	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	2 Go	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Go	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 snake	det
10	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ‘	punct
12	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 snake	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 feel	cc
14	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	conj
15	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	14 feel	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 trees	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	20 trees	advmod
18	among	among	ADP	_	20 trees	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 trees	det
20	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 feel	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 have	nsubj
22	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 trees	acl:relcl
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 roots	nmod:poss
24	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 have	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 water	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 water	det
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 have	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 held	punct
29	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	34 held	mark
30	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	34 held	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 held	nsubj:pass
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 held	aux
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 held	aux:pass
34	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 feel	advcl
35	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 held	advmod
36	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	34 held	advmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
38	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go in	infinitive					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past		the snake and ‘			tree rules
3	feel	infinitive			the trees	everywhere property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent among tree=Location
4	have	present	the trees	reeds's roots	the water		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Patient
5	hold	may · passive		baby	there	fast, perhaps property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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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