Indian Fairy Tales, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent., sentence 26
The son sees the gold, |end, as it could not forget the and thinking the serpent's hole |blow.---- full of treasure determines to | slay the snake.
Who acts: son, gold, hole, thinking · What happens: see, not forget, think, blow, determine, slay · To what, where: gold, the, hole, snake
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, XV. the Gold-giving Serpent.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, gold, hole, thinking), 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 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | nsubj |
| 3 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 gold | det |
| 5 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sees | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
| 7 | | | | | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 end | amod |
| 8 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gold | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forget | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 forget | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 forget | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 forget | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 forget | advmod |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sees | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 forget | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 determines | cc |
| 17 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 determines | csubj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 serpent | det |
| 19 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hole | nmod:poss |
| 20 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 19 serpent | case |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 thinking | obl |
| 22 | | | | | PART | _ | 23 blow | mark |
| 23 | blow | blow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hole | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 hole | punct |
| 25 | ---- | ---- | PUNCT | _ | 26 full | punct |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hole | parataxis |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 treasure | case |
| 28 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | obl |
| 29 | determines | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 the | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 slay | case |
| 31 | | | | | PART | _ | 32 slay | mark |
| 32 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 determines | xcomp |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 snake | det |
| 34 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 slay | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sees | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | the son | the gold | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer gold=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not forget | could | gold | the | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | the serpent's hole | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | blow | infinitive | the serpent's hole not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | determine | present | thinking | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | slay | infinitive | thinking not said here | the snake | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=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: «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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