The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 5

So she went to the parent snakes, who wept bitterly at the thought of losing her, and offered her gold and jewels as much as she could carry in remembrance of them.

Who acts: snake, parent snakes, thought · What happens: go, weep, lose, offer, carry, remember · To what, where: thought, snake, gold, remembrance, jewels

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 (snake, parent snakes, thought), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 snakes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snakes	det
6	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snakes	compound
7	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wept	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wept	nsubj
10	wept	weep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 snakes	acl:relcl
11	bitterly	bitterly	ADV	_	10 wept	advmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 thought	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 thought	det
14	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wept	obl
15	of	of	SCONJ	_	16 losing	mark
16	losing	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 thought	acl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 losing	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 offered	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 offered	cc
20	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 gold	nmod:poss
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 offered	obj
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 jewels	cc
24	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gold	conj
25	as	as	ADV	_	26 much	advmod
26	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 offered	obj
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 carry	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 carry	nsubj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 carry	aux
30	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 much	acl
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 remembrance	case
32	remembrance	remembrance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 carry	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 them	case
34	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 remembrance	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	snake			to the parent snakes	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to snake=Initial_Location
2	weep	past	the parent snakes		the thought	bitterly property	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	lose	gerund	the thought not said here	snake			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Eventuality
4	offer	past	snake not said here	snake's gold and jewels			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent gold=Goal much=Theme
5	carry	could	snake		remembrance of jewels		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in remembrance=Location
6	remember			jewels = jewel			nom remembrance «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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