The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 55

He gave him one bite and one shake, and flung him on the ground, where he lay, never to worry the princess any more.

Who acts: snake · What happens: give, fling, lie, not worry · To what, where: one bite, Gon, snake, ground, princess

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 bite	nummod
5	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 shake	cc
7	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 shake	nummod
8	shake	shake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 flung	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flung	cc
11	flung	fling	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flung	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lay	punct
17	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 lay	advmod
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 lay	nsubj
19	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 flung	parataxis
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worry	punct
21	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	23 worry	advmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 worry	mark
23	worry	worry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 lay	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princess	det
25	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 worry	obj
26	any	any	ADV	_	27 more	advmod
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 worry	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	give	past	snake	one bite and one shake	Gon		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bite=Theme
2	fling	past	snake not said here	snake		the ground	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme on ground=Destination
3	lie	past	snake				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not worry	to-infinitive	snake not said here	the princess			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus princess=Experiencer

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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