The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 4

No sooner had she said these words than, to her intense surprise, the little snake looked up into her face and spoke: ‘Since you have no children, be a mother to me instead, and I promise you will never repent it, for I will love you as if I were your own son.’

Who acts: snake, words, you, I · What happens: have, say, look up, speak, be, promise · To what, where: children, mother, me, child, you, own son · 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 (snake, words, you, 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 sooner	det
2	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 had	advmod
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	ccomp
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 words	det
7	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 looked	nsubj
8	than	than	ADP	_	13 surprise	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 surprise	punct
10	to	to	ADP	_	13 surprise	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 surprise	nmod:poss
12	intense	intense	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 surprise	amod
13	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 words	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 snake	punct
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 snake	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snake	amod
17	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 surprise	conj
18	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 looked	compound:prt
20	into	into	ADP	_	22 face	case
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 face	nmod:poss
22	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 looked	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 spoke	cc
24	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 looked	conj
25	:	:	PUNCT	_	35 mother	punct
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	35 mother	punct
27	Since	since	SCONJ	_	29 have	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 have	nsubj
29	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 mother	advcl
30	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	31 children	det
31	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	obj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 mother	cop
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 mother	det
35	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 spoke	obl
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 me	case
37	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 mother	nmod
38	instead	instead	ADV	_	24 spoke	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 promise	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 promise	cc
41	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 promise	nsubj
42	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 had	conj
43	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	46 repent	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 repent	aux
45	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	46 repent	advmod
46	repent	repent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 promise	ccomp
47	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 repent	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 love	punct
49	for	for	SCONJ	_	52 love	mark
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 love	nsubj
51	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 love	aux
52	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 repent	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 love	obj
54	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 son	mark
55	if	if	SCONJ	_	60 son	mark
56	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	60 son	nsubj
57	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	60 son	cop
58	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	60 son	nmod:poss
59	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 son	amod
60	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 love	advcl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct
62	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	past				soon property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	snake				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	look up	past	this words than snake's intense surprise and the little snake			into snake's face	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into face=Theme
4	speak speech: other	past	this words than snake's intense surprise and the little snake not said here			instead property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	present	you	no children			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Patient
6	is a	infinitive		a mother	me		tree rules
7	promise speech: promise	present	I				vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	not repent	future	you	child			tree rules
9	love	future	I	you			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
10	is a	past	I	your own son			tree rules
11	surprise		snake				nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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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