The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 19
No sooner did the servant hear this than he seized the duck by the neck, carried it off to the kitchen, and said to the cook, ‘Suppose you kill this duck; you see she’s nice and fat.’
Who acts: servant, haste, you, Queen · What happens: hear, seize, carry off, say, kill, see · To what, where: this, duck, servant, kitchen, cook · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (servant, haste, you, Queen), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 hear | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 servant | det |
| 5 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hear | nsubj |
| 6 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hear | obj |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 10 seized | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 duck | det |
| 12 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 neck | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 neck | det |
| 15 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carried | punct |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 seized | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 kitchen | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kitchen | det |
| 22 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 carried | parataxis |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 cook | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 cook | det |
| 28 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 said | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kill | punct |
| 30 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 kill | punct |
| 31 | Suppose | suppose | INTJ | _ | 33 kill | discourse |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 kill | nsubj |
| 33 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | conj |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 duck | det |
| 35 | duck | duck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kill | obj |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 38 see | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 see | nsubj |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hear | conj |
| 39 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 nice | nsubj |
| 40 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 nice | cop |
| 41 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 see | ccomp |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 fat | cc |
| 43 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 nice | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | the servant | this | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | seize | past | haste | the duck | by the neck | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry off | past | haste not said here | servant | the kitchen | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to kitchen=Destination | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | the cook | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to cook=Recipient | |||||
| 5 | kill | present | you | this duck | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duck=Theme | ||||
| 6 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | is | present | Queen | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | be | Queen not said here | tree rules |
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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