The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 14
But the old snakes shook their heads and replied:
Who acts: old snakes · What happens: shake, reply · To what, where: heads
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old snakes), 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 | _ | 5 shook | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 snakes | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snakes | amod |
| 4 | snakes | snake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shook | nsubj |
| 5 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 heads | nmod:poss |
| 7 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shook | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 replied | cc |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 shook | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the old snakes | things's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the old snakes not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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