The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 34
He then gave her some wine and bread, and when all her strength had returned she got up, and they went to the door and knocked and called so loudly that the guards heard them, and told the King.
Who acts: power, woman, eyes, guards · What happens: give, return, get up, go, knock, call · To what, where: wine, woman, strength, door, eyes, King · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (power, woman, eyes, guards), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 wine | det |
| 6 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bread | cc |
| 8 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wine | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 got | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 returned | advmod |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 strength | det |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 returned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 returned | aux |
| 16 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 got | advcl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 got | compound:prt |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 went | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 went | cc |
| 22 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 went | nsubj |
| 23 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | parataxis |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 door | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 door | det |
| 26 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 went | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 knocked | cc |
| 28 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 went | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 called | cc |
| 30 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 knocked | conj |
| 31 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 loudly | advmod |
| 32 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 30 called | advmod |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 heard | mark |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 guards | det |
| 35 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 heard | nsubj |
| 36 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 called | advcl |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 heard | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 told | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 told | cc |
| 40 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 King | det |
| 42 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 told | iobj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | power | some wine and bread | woman | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient wine=Theme | ||
| 2 | return | past · perfect · passive | woman's strength | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get up | past | woman | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | go | past | eyes = eye | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | knock | participle | eyes = eye not said here | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 6 | call | participle | eyes = eye not said here | loudly property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | hear | past | the guards | eyes = eye | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert | past | power not said here | the King | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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