The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 21

So he chopped off her head, and when she was opened there was the Queen’s ring in her stomach.

Who acts: haste, ring · What happens: chop off, open, be · To what, where: head, Queen

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 (haste, ring), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 chopped	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chopped	nsubj
3	chopped	chop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 head	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 head	nmod:poss
6	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chopped	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 opened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 opened	cc
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 opened	advmod
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 opened	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 opened	aux:pass
12	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 chopped	conj
13	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	14 was	expl
14	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 opened	ccomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Queen	det
16	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 ring	nmod:poss
17	’s	's	PART	_	16 Queen	case
18	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 was	nsubj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 stomach	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 stomach	nmod:poss
21	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ring	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 chopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	chop off	past	haste	Queen's head		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient
2	open	past · passive		Queen		tree rules
3	be	past	the Queen's ring in Queen's stomach		there	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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