The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 37
This cursed snake has most likely swallowed her up.’
Who acts: cursed snake · What happens: curse, have, swallow up · To what, where: snake
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 (cursed snake), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 snake | det |
| 2 | cursed | curse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 snake | amod |
| 3 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 7 swallowed | advmod |
| 6 | likely | likely | ADV | _ | 7 swallowed | advmod |
| 7 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 has | advcl |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 swallowed | obj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | curse | participle | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | have | present | this cursed snake | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | swallow up | past | this cursed snake not said here | snake | likely property | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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