The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 27

Then it took the three bits of the snake and laid them in order, and put one of the leaves on each wound.

Who acts: it · What happens: take, lay, put · To what, where: three bits, leaves, order, one

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 (it), 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bits	det
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 bits	nummod
6	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 took	obj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 snake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snake	det
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bits	nmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 laid	cc
11	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 took	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 laid	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	14 order	case
14	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laid	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 put	cc
17	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 took	conj
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 put	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 leaves	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 leaves	det
21	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 one	nmod
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 wound	case
23	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	24 wound	det
24	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 leaves	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	take	past	it	the three bits of the snake		then	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Theme
2	lay	past		leaves = leaf	order		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in order=Destination
3	put	infinitive		one of the leaves on each wound			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent one=Goal

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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