Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6, sentence 50

The snake said, "Open your mouth wide, and I'll go down and see what it is."

Who acts: snake · What happens: say, open, go down, see, be · To what, where: mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake), 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 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Open	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 Open	punct
6	Open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Open	obj
9	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Open	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	'll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 Open	conj
15	down	down	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 see	cc
17	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	14 go	conj
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 see	obj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 what	nsubj
20	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 what	cop
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the snake			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	open in a quote	infinitive		your mouth	wide property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	go down in a quote	future	the snake = snake		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	see in a quote	infinitive	the snake = snake not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a in a quote	present	snake			tree rules

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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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