The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 35
Then, leading her into a room, it shut the door, and throwing off its skin, it changed into a beautiful young man with golden locks, and flashing eyes, who embraced Grannonia tenderly, and said all sorts of pretty things to her.
Who acts: step, flashing eyes · What happens: lead, shut, throw off, change, flash, embrace · To what, where: snake, room, door, skin, Grannonia, sorts · 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 (step, flashing eyes), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 leading | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | leading | lead | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 shut | advcl |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 leading | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 room | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 room | det |
| 7 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 leading | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 leading | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 shut | nsubj |
| 10 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shut | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 changed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 changed | cc |
| 15 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 changed | advcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 throwing | compound:prt |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 skin | nmod:poss |
| 18 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 throwing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 throwing | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 changed | nsubj |
| 21 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | conj |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 25 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 changed | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 locks | case |
| 28 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 locks | amod |
| 29 | locks | lock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 man | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 embraced | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 embraced | cc |
| 32 | flashing | flash | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 eyes | amod |
| 33 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 embraced | nsubj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 embraced | punct |
| 35 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 embraced | nsubj |
| 36 | embraced | embrace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | conj |
| 37 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 embraced | obj |
| 38 | tenderly | tenderly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 embraced | xcomp |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shut | conj |
| 42 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 sorts | det |
| 43 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 said | obj |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 things | case |
| 45 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 things | amod |
| 46 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 sorts | nmod |
| 47 | to | to | ADP | _ | 48 her | case |
| 48 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 things | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | gerund | step not said here | snake | a room | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme into room=Destination | ||
| 2 | shut | past | step | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | throw off | gerund | step not said here | step's skin | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Theme | ||||
| 4 | change | past | step | into a beautiful young man with golden locks result | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.result»: agent=Patient into man=Result | ||||
| 5 | flash | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | embrace | past | flashing eyes | Grannonia | tenderly property | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grannonia=Co-Agent | |||
| 7 | say speech: assert | past | step not said here | all sorts of pretty things to snake | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sort=Topic | ||||
| 8 | sort | pretty things to snake | nom sort «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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