The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Snake, sentence 9

‘Why, if you do that,’ replied the snake, ‘we shall be no better than the vipers and reptiles, and that’s not what I want at all.

Who acts: you, we, that, I · What happens: do, reply, not be, want · To what, where: that, snake, all

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 (you, we, that, 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	_	10 replied	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 do	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 do	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	nsubj
6	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 replied	advcl
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 do	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct
10	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snake	det
12	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 replied	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 better	punct
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 better	nsubj
16	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 better	aux
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 better	cop
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 better	advmod
19	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 replied	parataxis
20	than	than	ADP	_	22 vipers	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 vipers	det
22	vipers	viper	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 better	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 reptiles	cc
24	reptiles	reptile	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 vipers	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 what	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 what	cc
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 what	nsubj
28	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 what	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 what	advmod
30	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 better	obl
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 want	nsubj
32	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 what	acl:relcl
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 all	case
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	32 want	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do a condition, not said to happen	present	you	that			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
2	reply speech: assert	past		the snake			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
3	not is	shall	we			than the vipers and reptiles; good property	tree rules
4	not is a	present	that				tree rules
5	want	present	I		all		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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