The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 29

The leaves remained lying on the ground, and it suddenly occurred to the unfortunate man who had seen everything, that the wonderful power of the leaves might also be exercised upon a human being.

Who acts: leaves, snake, unfortunate man · What happens: remain, lie, occur, see, exercise · To what, where: ground, everything, wonderful power

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 (leaves, snake, unfortunate man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 leaves	det
2	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 remained	nsubj
3	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 remained	xcomp
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 ground	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ground	det
7	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lying	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 occurred	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 occurred	cc
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 occurred	nsubj
11	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	12 occurred	advmod
12	occurred	occur	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remained	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 man	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 man	det
15	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 man	amod
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 occurred	obl
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 seen	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 seen	aux
19	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 man	acl:relcl
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	19 seen	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 exercised	punct
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 exercised	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 power	det
24	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 power	amod
25	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 exercised	nsubj:pass
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 leaves	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 leaves	det
28	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 power	nmod
29	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 exercised	aux
30	also	also	ADV	_	32 exercised	advmod
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 exercised	aux:pass
32	exercised	exercise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 occurred	conj
33	upon	upon	SCONJ	_	35 human	mark
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 human	det
35	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 exercised	xcomp
36	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 human	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	remain	past	the leaves				tree rules
2	lie	gerund	the leaves not said here		the ground		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location
3	occur	past	snake			to the unfortunate man; suddenly property	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	past · perfect	the unfortunate man	everything			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	exercise	might · passive		the wonderful power of the leaves		human property	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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