The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 3
Now the heart of the snake was sad at her words, but he only said:
Who acts: heart, husband, snake · What happens: be, say, word · To what, where: words · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart, husband, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 sad | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sad | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 heart | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sad | cop |
| 8 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 words | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 words | nmod:poss |
| 11 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sad | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sad | parataxis |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heart of the snake | snake's words | now | sad property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | husband | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | word | snake | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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