The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 9

Stand a little on one side, and then, when the serpent rises to the surface, I will say to him, “O serpent, to-day you can eat two people.

Who acts: you, serpent, I · What happens: stand, rise, say, eat · To what, where: little, one side, surface, serpent, two people · 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 (you, serpent, 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	Stand	stand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 little	det
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Stand	obl:unmarked
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 side	nummod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 say	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 then	punct
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 rises	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 serpent	det
13	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rises	nsubj
14	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 say	advcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 surface	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 surface	det
17	surface	surface	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 rises	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rises	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 say	aux
21	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stand	conj
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 serpent	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 serpent	punct
26	O	o	INTJ	_	27 serpent	discourse
27	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stand	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 eat	punct
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 day	case
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 to	punct
31	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 eat	obl
32	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 eat	nsubj
33	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 eat	aux
34	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Stand	conj
35	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 people	nummod
36	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 eat	obj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Stand	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	imperative	you not said here	a little		one side		serpent obl	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on side=Location
2	rise	present	the serpent			the surface			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to surface=Initial_Location
3	say speech: assert	future	I		serpent		then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient
4	eat in a quote	can	serpent	two people			day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=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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