The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 28
Immediately the pieces joined together, the snake moved itself and became alive and then both hurried away.
Who acts: pieces · What happens: join, move, become, hurry away · To what, where: pieces, snake, both
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 (pieces), 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 | Immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 pieces | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 pieces | det |
| 3 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 pieces | acl |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 joined | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pieces | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 snake | det |
| 8 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 moved | nsubj |
| 9 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 moved | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 moved | conj |
| 13 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hurried | cc |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 hurried | advmod |
| 16 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 hurried | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 alive | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 hurried | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | join | participle | the pieces not said here | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | move | past | the pieces | snake | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | past | the pieces not said here | alive property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hurry away | participle · passive | both | then | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Agent |
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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