The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 6

So she gave the snake a little hole in the house for its bed, fed it with all the nicest food she could think of, and seemed as if she never could show it enough kindness.

Who acts: Sabatella · What happens: give, feed, think, seem, not show · To what, where: little hole, snake, hole, nicest food

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 hole	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 hole	amod
8	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 house	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 bed	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 bed	nmod:poss
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hole	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fed	punct
16	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fed	obj
18	with	with	ADP	_	22 food	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 food	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 food	det
21	nicest	nice	ADJ	Degree=Sup	22 food	amod
22	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fed	obl
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 think	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 think	aux
25	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 food	acl:relcl
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 think	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seemed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seemed	cc
29	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
30	as	as	SCONJ	_	35 show	mark
31	if	if	SCONJ	_	35 show	mark
32	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 show	nsubj
33	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	35 show	advmod
34	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 show	aux
35	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 seemed	xcomp
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 show	obj
37	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 kindness	amod
38	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 show	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	Sabatella	a little hole	the snake		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent snake=Recipient hole=Theme
2	feed	past	Sabatella not said here	hole		with all nicest food	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	think speech: other	could	Sabatella	all nicest food not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot food=Theme
4	seem	past	Sabatella not said here				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
5	not show a condition, not said to happen	could	Sabatella	hole			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient kindness=Topic

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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