The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 98
When the blessing was given they went home again, and after that I saw no more of them.
Who acts: snakes, I · What happens: give, go, see · To what, where: blessing, more
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snakes, I), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 given | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 blessing | det |
| 3 | blessing | blessing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 went | advcl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 went | nsubj |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 went | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 13 that | case |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 saw | obl |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 went | conj |
| 16 | no | no | ADV | _ | 17 more | advmod |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 saw | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 more | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | the blessing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | past | snakes = snake | again | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | see | past | I | more of snakes | after that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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