The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 3

When Sabatella, for that was the name of the peasant’s wife, saw the little beast, she sighed deeply and said, ‘Even the snakes have their brood; I alone am unfortunate and have no children.’

Who acts: that, Sabatella, snakes, I · What happens: be, see, sigh, say, have · To what, where: little beast, brood, children · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (that, Sabatella, snakes, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
2	Sabatella	Sabatella	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 name	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	8 name	case
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 name	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 name	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 name	det
8	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Sabatella	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 wife	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 peasant	det
11	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 wife	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 peasant	case
13	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 name	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Sabatella	punct
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sighed	advcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 beast	det
17	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 beast	amod
18	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 sighed	nsubj
21	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	21 sighed	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sighed	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	30 have	punct
27	Even	even	ADV	_	29 snakes	advmod
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 snakes	det
29	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 have	nsubj
30	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 said	ccomp
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 brood	nmod:poss
32	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 unfortunate	punct
34	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 unfortunate	nsubj
35	alone	alone	ADV	_	34 I	advmod
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 unfortunate	cop
37	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 sighed	parataxis
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 have	cc
39	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 unfortunate	conj
40	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	41 children	det
41	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 have	obj
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 sighed	punct
43	’	'	PUNCT	_	21 sighed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	that		for the name; of the peasant's wife	tree rules
2	see	past	Sabatella	the little beast		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer beast=Stimulus
3	sigh	past	Sabatella		deeply property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	Sabatella not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	have	present	the snakes	twigs's brood		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Patient
6	is	present	I		unfortunate property	tree rules
7	have	present	I not said here	no children		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=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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