The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 21

‘Don’t unsheath it,’ said the serpent.

What happens: not do, say · To what, where: serpent · Speech: someone speaks here

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: 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
3	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 Do	advmod
4	unsheath	unsheath	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Do	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 serpent	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 said	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	infinitive						unsheath sword	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past		the serpent					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: «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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