The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 11
The piece of the white snake which he had eaten had enabled him to understand the language of animals.
Who acts: piece · What happens: eat, enable, understand · To what, where: King, language
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (piece), 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 piece | det |
| 2 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 enabled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 snake | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snake | det |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 snake | amod |
| 6 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 piece | nmod |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 eaten | nsubj |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 eaten | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 eaten | aux |
| 10 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 piece | acl:relcl |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 enabled | aux |
| 12 | enabled | enable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 enabled | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 understand | mark |
| 15 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 enabled | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 language | det |
| 17 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 understand | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 animals | case |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 language | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 enabled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · perfect | the piece of the white snake | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | enable | past · perfect | the piece of the white snake | King | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | understand | to-infinitive | the piece of the white snake not said here | the language of animals | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=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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