The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 23

If the snake can turn all the trees and fruit of my garden into precious stones, then I promise him my daughter in marriage.’

Who acts: snake, I · What happens: turn, promise · To what, where: trees, precious stones, daughter, marriage

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 (snake, I), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	5 turn	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 snake	det
3	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turn	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	aux
5	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 trees	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 trees	det
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fruit	cc
10	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trees	conj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 garden	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 garden	nmod:poss
13	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fruit	nmod
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 stones	case
15	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stones	amod
16	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 turn	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 promise	punct
18	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 promise	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 promise	nsubj
20	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 turn	parataxis
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 promise	iobj
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 daughter	nmod:poss
23	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promise	iobj
24	in	in	ADP	_	25 marriage	case
25	marriage	marriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promise	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 turn	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	can	the snake	all trees and fruit of my garden		precious stones			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tree=Theme into stone=Trajectory
2	promise speech: promise	present	I		my daughter	marriage	then		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal daughter=Theme

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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