The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 32
When the snake reached the palace, all the courtiers shook and trembled with fear down to the very scullion, and the King and Queen were in such a state of nervous collapse that they hid themselves in a far-away turret.
Who acts: snake, courtiers, King · What happens: reach, shake, tremble down, be, hide · To what, where: palace, state, courtiers, turret
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, courtiers, King), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 reached | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 snake | det |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shook | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 palace | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 courtiers | det:predet |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 courtiers | det |
| 10 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 shook | nsubj |
| 11 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 trembled | cc |
| 13 | trembled | tremble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shook | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 fear | case |
| 15 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | obl |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 trembled | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 scullion | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 scullion | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 scullion | advmod |
| 20 | scullion | scullion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 trembled | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 state | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 state | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 King | det |
| 24 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 state | nsubj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 Queen | cc |
| 26 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 King | conj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 state | cop |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 state | case |
| 29 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 31 state | det:predet |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 state | det |
| 31 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shook | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 collapse | case |
| 33 | nervous | nervous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 collapse | amod |
| 34 | collapse | collapse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 state | nmod |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 hid | mark |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hid | nsubj |
| 37 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 collapse | acl:relcl |
| 38 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 hid | obj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 turret | case |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 turret | det |
| 41 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 43 away | advmod |
| 42 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 far | punct |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 44 turret | advmod |
| 44 | turret | turret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 hid | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the snake | the palace | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent palace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | all courtiers | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | tremble down | past | all courtiers not said here | with fear; to the scullion; down property | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the King and Queen | such state | of nervous collapse | tree rules | |||
| 5 | hide | past | courtiers = courtier | courtiers = courtier | a turret | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in turret=Location |
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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