The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 31

The snake arrived at court in a carriage made of gold and drawn by six white elephants; but wherever it appeared on the way, the people fled in terror at the sight of the fearful reptile.

Who acts: snake, it, people · What happens: arrive, make, draw, appear, flee, sight · To what, where: court, carriage, way, terror, fearful reptile

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, it, people), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 court	case
5	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 carriage	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 carriage	det
8	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
9	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 carriage	acl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 made	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 drawn	cc
13	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 made	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	17 elephants	case
15	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 elephants	nummod
16	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 elephants	amod
17	elephants	elephant	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drawn	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	22 appeared	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 appeared	cc
20	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	22 appeared	advmod
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 appeared	nsubj
22	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	parataxis
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 way	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 way	det
25	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 appeared	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 fled	punct
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 people	det
28	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 fled	nsubj
29	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 appeared	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	31 terror	case
31	terror	terror	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fled	obl
32	at	at	ADP	_	34 sight	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 sight	det
34	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 fled	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	38 reptile	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 reptile	det
37	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 reptile	amod
38	reptile	reptile	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sight	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	the snake		court	in a carriage	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	participle		a carriage not said here		of gold	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
3	draw	participle				by six white elephants	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	appear	past	it		the way	wherever property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on way=Location
5	flee	past	the people		terror	at the sight of the fearful reptile	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	sight			the fearful reptile			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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