The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 86

‘What is the use of that?’ she asked, ‘when it has no hand to feel with?’ but all the same she did as she was bid, and in an instant the wounded arm touched something round and soft, lying between two stones in a clump of reeds.

Who acts: snake, use, wounded arm · What happens: be, ask, have, feel, do, bid · To what, where: use, hand, snake, something, instant, clump · 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, use, wounded arm), 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	_	5 use	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 use	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 use	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 use	det
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 use	nmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 use	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 has	advmod
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 has	nsubj
16	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	ccomp
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 hand	det
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 has	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 feel	mark
20	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 hand	acl
21	with	with	ADP	_	20 feel	obl
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
23	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 has	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 same	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	27 same	det:predet
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 same	det
27	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 has	conj
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 did	nsubj
29	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 same	advcl
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 bid	mark
31	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bid	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 bid	aux:pass
33	bid	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 did	advcl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 touched	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 touched	cc
36	in	in	ADP	_	38 instant	case
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 instant	det
38	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 touched	obl
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 arm	det
40	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 arm	amod
41	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 touched	nsubj
42	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	parataxis
43	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	42 touched	obj
44	round	round	ADV	_	43 something	advmod
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 soft	cc
46	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 something	conj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 lying	punct
48	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 touched	advcl
49	between	between	ADP	_	51 stones	case
50	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 stones	nummod
51	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 lying	obl
52	in	in	ADP	_	54 clump	case
53	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 clump	det
54	clump	clump	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 lying	obl
55	of	of	ADP	_	56 reeds	case
56	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	54 clump	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 use	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the use		of that	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	snake				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present	use	no hand			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
4	feel	to-infinitive	use not said here	no hand not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	do	past	snake				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	bid	past · passive		snake			tree rules
7	touch	past	the wounded arm	something	a instant		vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Co-Theme
8	lie	gerund	the wounded arm not said here		a clump of reeds	between two stones	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between stone=Location

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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