The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 26
After a little time a second snake crept out of the corner, but when it saw the first one lying dead and in pieces it went back and came again soon, holding three green leaves in its mouth.
Who acts: second snake, snake, first one · What happens: creep out, see, lie, go back, come, hold · To what, where: corner, first one, pieces, three green leaves, mouth
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second snake, snake, first one), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 snake | det |
| 6 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 7 snake | amod |
| 7 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | nsubj |
| 8 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 corner | det |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crept | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 saw | cc |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 saw | advmod |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 crept | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 one | det |
| 19 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 20 one | amod |
| 20 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 21 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 one | acl |
| 22 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 lying | xcomp |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 pieces | case |
| 25 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 went | obl |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 28 | back | back | ADV | _ | 27 went | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 came | cc |
| 30 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 went | conj |
| 31 | again | again | ADV | _ | 30 came | advmod |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 30 came | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 holding | punct |
| 34 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 came | advcl |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 leaves | nummod |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 leaves | amod |
| 37 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 holding | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 mouth | case |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 holding | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | creep out | past | a second snake | the corner | time | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location corner=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | past | snake | the first one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the first one not said here | dead property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | go back | past | snake | pieces | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | come | past | snake not said here | again | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 6 | hold | gerund | snake not said here | three green leaves | snake's mouth | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in mouth=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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