The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 2

Now it happened one day that her husband went to the wood to collect brushwood, and when he had brought it home, he discovered a pretty little snake among the twigs.

Who acts: it, husband · What happens: happen, go, collect, bring, discover · To what, where: wood, brushwood, pretty little snake

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, husband), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happened	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 day	nummod
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl:unmarked
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 went	mark
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 husband	nmod:poss
8	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	nsubj
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 wood	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wood	det
12	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 went	obl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 collect	mark
14	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	advcl
15	brushwood	brushwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 collect	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 brought	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 brought	cc
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 brought	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 brought	aux
21	brought	bring	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 happened	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 brought	obj
23	home	home	ADV	_	21 brought	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 discovered	punct
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 discovered	nsubj
26	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 happened	conj
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 snake	det
28	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 snake	amod
29	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 snake	amod
30	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 discovered	obj
31	among	among	ADP	_	33 twigs	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 twigs	det
33	twigs	twig	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 discovered	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past	it			now		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	woman's husband		the wood	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wood=Initial_Location
3	collect	to-infinitive	woman's husband not said here	brushwood				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brushwood=Theme
4	bring	past · perfect	husband	brushwood			home property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	discover	past	husband	a pretty little snake			among the twigs	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic

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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