The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 150

And as the snake put one of his heads through the hole that he had made so as to get in and out comfortably, it cut it of so clean that the snake really did not feel it.

Who acts: snake, hole · What happens: put, make, get, cut, not feel · To what, where: one, hole, sword

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, hole), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 put	cc
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 put	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj
5	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 put	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 heads	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 heads	nmod:poss
9	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 one	nmod
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 made	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 made	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	aux
16	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 hole	acl:relcl
17	so	so	ADV	_	27 cut	advmod
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 get	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 get	mark
20	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 cut	advcl
21	in	in	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 out	cc
23	out	out	ADV	_	21 in	conj
24	comfortably	comfortably	ADV	_	20 get	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 get	punct
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	nsubj
27	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 made	parataxis
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cut	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	27 cut	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 clean	advmod
31	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 cut	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 feel	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 snake	det
34	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 feel	nsubj
35	really	really	ADV	_	38 feel	advmod
36	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 feel	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 feel	advmod
38	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 clean	advcl
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 feel	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	put	past	the snake	one of snake's heads	the hole		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme through hole=Destination
2	make	past · perfect	snake	the hole			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	get	to-infinitive	hole not said here			comfortably property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
4	cut	past	hole	sword		clean property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material it=Product
5	not feel	past · do-support	the snake	sword			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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