The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 39
And one day when the young King was lying asleep, she called the captain to her, and seized the head of the sleeping King and made him take his feet, and together they threw him into the sea.
Who acts: young King, change, King, feet · What happens: lie, call, seize, make, take, throw · To what, where: captain, Queen, head, King, feet, sea · 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 (young King, change, King, feet), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 lying | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 lying | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 King | amod |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lying | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lying | aux |
| 9 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 called | advcl |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lying | xcomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lying | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | nsubj |
| 13 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 captain | det |
| 15 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 called | obj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 her | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 called | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seized | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seized | cc |
| 20 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 head | det |
| 22 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seized | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 sleeping | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sleeping | det |
| 25 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 head | nmod |
| 26 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 sleeping | appos |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 made | cc |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seized | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 made | obj |
| 30 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | xcomp |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 feet | nmod:poss |
| 32 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 take | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 threw | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 threw | cc |
| 35 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 threw | advmod |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 threw | nsubj |
| 37 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 called | conj |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 threw | obj |
| 39 | into | into | ADP | _ | 41 sea | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 sea | det |
| 41 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 threw | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past · progressive | the young King | day | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | call speech: assert | past | change | the captain | Queen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent captain=Topic to she=Recipient | |||
| 3 | seize | past | the head of the sleeping | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make | past | King | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | take | infinitive | King not said here | King's feet | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Theme | ||||
| 6 | throw | past | feet = foot | King | into the sea result; together property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer he=Theme into sea=Result |
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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