The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 2

‘Oh!’ she answered, ‘I am chained here till a horrible serpent with seven heads comes to eat me.

Who acts: girl · What happens: answer, chain, come, eat · To what, where: I, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (girl), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct
2	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	6 answered	discourse
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Oh	punct
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 answered	nsubj
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 chained	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	11 chained	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 chained	nsubj
10	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 chained	aux:pass
11	chained	chain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 comes	nsubj
12	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 chained	advmod
13	till	till	ADP	_	16 serpent	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 serpent	det
15	horrible	horrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 serpent	amod
16	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chained	obl
17	with	with	ADP	_	19 heads	case
18	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 heads	nummod
19	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 serpent	nmod
20	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	ccomp
21	to	to	PART	_	22 eat	mark
22	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 comes	xcomp
23	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 eat	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	girl				tree rules
2	chain	present · passive		I	here	till a horrible serpent with seven heads	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	come	present					tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive		me			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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 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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