The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 18
And what was more strange still, this serpent had the head of a woman.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: be, have · To what, where: head
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 strange | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 strange | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strange | cop |
| 4 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 strange | advmod |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 strange | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 had | punct |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 serpent | det |
| 9 | serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 strange | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 head | det |
| 12 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 had | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 woman | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 head | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 strange | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | still | strange property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | this serpent | the head of a woman | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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