The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 34
As soon as the snake saw Grannonia, it wound its tail round her and kissed her.
Who acts: snake, step · What happens: see, woun, kiss · To what, where: Grannonia, tail
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, step), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 saw | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wound | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wound | nsubj |
| 10 | wound | woun | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 tail | nmod:poss |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wound | obj |
| 13 | round | round | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wound | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 kissed | cc |
| 16 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wound | conj |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 kissed | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the snake | Grannonia | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer grannonia=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | woun | past | step | step's tail | round snake | tree rules | |||
| 3 | kiss | past | step not said here | Grannonia | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
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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