The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 92
The Seven-headed Serpent came without his train of beasts, saw his prey waiting for him, and devoured it at one mouthful.
Who acts: headed Serpent, prey · What happens: come, see, wait, devour · To what, where: prey, one mouthful
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 (headed Serpent, prey), 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 | 5 Serpent | det |
| 2 | Seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 headed | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Seven | punct |
| 4 | headed | headed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Serpent | amod |
| 5 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 9 train | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 train | nmod:poss |
| 9 | train | train | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 beasts | case |
| 11 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 train | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 saw | punct |
| 13 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 prey | nmod:poss |
| 15 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 saw | obj |
| 16 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 prey | acl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 waiting | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 devoured | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 devoured | cc |
| 21 | devoured | devour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 came | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 devoured | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 mouthful | case |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 mouthful | nummod |
| 25 | mouthful | mouthful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 devoured | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the headed Serpent | without SERPENT's train of beasts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the headed Serpent not said here | SERPENT's prey | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer prey=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wait | gerund | SERPENT's prey not said here | for SERPENT | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | devour | past | the headed Serpent not said here | prey | one mouthful | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 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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