The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 62
Then Grannonia took some of his blood and poured it into her little bottle; and went on her way as fast as she could to Vallone Grosso.
Who acts: Grannonia · What happens: take, pour, go · To what, where: some, much, little bottle, way
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 (Grannonia), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Grannonia | Grannonia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blood | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 blood | nmod:poss |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 some | nmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 poured | cc |
| 9 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 poured | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 14 bottle | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bottle | nmod:poss |
| 13 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 bottle | amod |
| 14 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 poured | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 went | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 could | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fast | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 Vallone | case |
| 27 | Vallone | Vallone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 could | nmod |
| 28 | Grosso | Grosso | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Vallone | flat |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Grannonia | some | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme | |||
| 2 | pour | past | Grannonia not said here | much | Grannonia's little bottle | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into bottle=Destination | |||
| 3 | go | past | Grannonia not said here | Grannonia's way | fast property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location |
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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