The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 47
He made them both go into a secret chamber, and let no one see them.
Who acts: other two, one · What happens: make, go, let, see · To what, where: leaves, secret chamber, 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 (other two, one), 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 | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | ccomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 chamber | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 chamber | det |
| 8 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chamber | amod |
| 9 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 13 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 one | det |
| 14 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 let | obj |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 let | xcomp |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 see | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | other two = two | leaves = leaf | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | present | other two = two not said here | a secret chamber | both property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | let | infinitive | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | no one not said here | leaves = leaf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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