The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 5

At first Sabatella was frightened to death at hearing a snake speak, but plucking up her courage, she replied, ‘If it weren’t for any other reason than your kindly thought, I would agree to what you say, and I will love you and look after you like a mother.’

Who acts: Sabatella, I, you · What happens: frighten, hear, pluck up, not reply, think, agree · To what, where: Sabatella, snake speak, courage, your, you, mother · 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 (Sabatella, I, you), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 first	case
2	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 frightened	obl
3	Sabatella	Sabatella	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 death	case
7	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 frightened	obl
8	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 hearing	mark
9	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 frightened	advcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 speak	det
11	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 speak	compound
12	speak	speak	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hearing	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 plucking	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 plucking	cc
15	plucking	pluck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 hearing	conj
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 plucking	compound:prt
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 courage	nmod:poss
18	courage	courage	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 plucking	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 replied	punct
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 replied	nsubj
21	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	conj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 n’t	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 n’t	punct
24	If	if	SCONJ	_	27 n’t	mark
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 n’t	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 n’t	cop
27	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 replied	advmod
28	for	for	ADP	_	31 reason	case
29	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 reason	det
30	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 reason	amod
31	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 n’t	obl
32	than	than	SCONJ	_	35 thought	mark
33	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 thought	nsubj:pass
34	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	35 thought	advmod
35	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	39 agree	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 thought	punct
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 agree	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 agree	aux
39	agree	agree	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 reason	parataxis
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 what	case
41	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	39 agree	obl
42	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	43 say	nsubj
43	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 what	acl:relcl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 love	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 love	cc
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 love	nsubj
47	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 love	aux
48	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 agree	parataxis
49	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	48 love	obj
50	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 look	cc
51	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 love	conj
52	after	after	SCONJ	_	54 like	mark
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	54 like	nsubj
54	like	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 look	advcl
55	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	56 mother	det
56	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 like	obj
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct
58	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		Sabatella	to death	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	gerund		a snake speak		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer speak=Stimulus
3	pluck up	gerund		Sabatella's courage		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=Patient
4	not reply speech: assert	past	Sabatella			vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	think speech: other	participle · passive		your	kindly property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	agree speech: agree	would	I		to any other reason	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	say speech: assert	present	you			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
8	love	future	I	you		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus
9	look	infinitive	I not said here			vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
10	like	present	you	a mother		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mother=Theme

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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