The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 36

When the King saw the snake shut itself into a room with his daughter, he said to his wife, ‘Heaven be merciful to our child, for I fear it is all over with her now.

Who acts: King, snake, Heaven, I, step · What happens: see, shut, say, be, fear · To what, where: step, room, wife · 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 (King, snake, Heaven, 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	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 King	det
3	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 snake	det
6	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	nsubj
7	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	ccomp
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 shut	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 room	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 room	det
11	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 daughter	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 daughter	nmod:poss
14	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 room	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 wife	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 wife	nmod:poss
20	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 merciful	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	25 merciful	punct
23	Heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 merciful	nsubj
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 merciful	cop
25	merciful	merciful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	conj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 child	case
27	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 child	nmod:poss
28	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 merciful	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fear	punct
30	for	for	SCONJ	_	32 fear	mark
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 fear	nsubj
32	fear	fear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 over	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 over	cop
35	all	all	ADV	_	36 over	advmod
36	over	over	ADV	_	32 fear	ccomp
37	with	with	ADP	_	38 her	case
38	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 fear	obl
39	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 fear	advmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the King						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	shut	past	the snake	step		a room with King's daughter			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent itself=Patient
3	say speech: assert	past	King		King's wife				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to wife=Recipient
4	is	infinitive	Heaven					to our child; merciful property	tree rules
5	fear	present	I				now	with snake	vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	step					all, over property	tree rules

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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