The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 78

The Serpent glided over the clothes which were spread for him, came to the Lake, and asked it who had strewed those soft things on the path?

Who acts: Serpent · What happens: glide, spread, come, ask, strew · To what, where: clothes, Lake, lion, soft things, path · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Serpent	det
2	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 glided	nsubj
3	glided	glide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	over	over	ADP	_	6 clothes	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 clothes	det
6	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	3 glided	obl
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 spread	nsubj:pass
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 spread	aux:pass
9	spread	spread	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 clothes	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 came	punct
13	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glided	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Lake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Lake	det
16	Lake	Lake	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 came	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 asked	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 asked	cc
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glided	parataxis
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	obj
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 strewed	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 strewed	aux
23	strewed	strew	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 asked	ccomp
24	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	26 things	det
25	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 things	amod
26	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 strewed	obj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 path	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 path	det
29	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 strewed	obl
30	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 glided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	glide	past	the Serpent			the clothes		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over clothes=Trajectory
2	spread	past · passive		the clothes			for SERPENT	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	come	past	the Serpent not said here			the Lake		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lake=Initial_Location
4	ask speech: ask	past			lion			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic
5	strew	past · perfect		that soft things		the path		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thing=Theme on path=Destination

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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