The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 85
But the snake took no notice, and only answered, ‘Put in your other arm too.’
Who acts: snake · What happens: take, answer, put · To what, where: notice, other arm
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 took | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 notice | det |
| 6 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 answered | cc |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 answered | advmod |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 took | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Put | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Put | punct |
| 13 | Put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 answered | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 arm | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 arm | nmod:poss |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 arm | amod |
| 17 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Put | obl |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 Put | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the snake | no notice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | participle | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | put | infinitive | your other arm | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in arm=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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