The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 8
‘I’m quite agreeable,’ answered Mattheo, ‘and I’ll do my best to find another snake like yourself and arrange a match between you.’
Who acts: I · What happens: be, answer, do, find, arrange · To what, where: Mattheo, best, snake, match
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ’m | nsubj |
| 3 | ’m | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | advcl |
| 4 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 5 agreeable | advmod |
| 5 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ’m | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’m | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Mattheo | Mattheo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ‘ | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | INTJ | _ | 9 Mattheo | discourse |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 do | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 do | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 do | aux |
| 15 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | conj |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 best | nmod:poss |
| 17 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 do | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 find | mark |
| 19 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 do | advcl |
| 20 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 snake | det |
| 21 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 find | obj |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 yourself | case |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 snake | nmod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 arrange | cc |
| 25 | arrange | arrange | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 find | conj |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 match | det |
| 27 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 arrange | obj |
| 28 | between | between | ADP | _ | 29 you | case |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 match | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | I | agreeable property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Mattheo | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mattheo=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | do | future | I | my best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | I not said here | another snake | like yourself | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic | |||
| 5 | arrange | infinitive | I not said here | a match | between you | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent match=Theme between you=Destination |
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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