The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 24
When his request was granted, he set off on his journey, and in the course of it he one day came to a large pond, on the edge of which he noticed three fishes which had got entangled in the reeds and were gasping for water.
Who acts: haste · What happens: grant, set off, come, notice, entangle, gasp · To what, where: request, journey, course, three fishes
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), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 granted | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 request | nmod:poss |
| 3 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | aux:pass |
| 5 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 set | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 set | nsubj |
| 8 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 set | compound:prt |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 set | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 came | cc |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 course | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 course | det |
| 17 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 it | case |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 course | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 came | nsubj |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 day | nummod |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 he | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 set | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 pond | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 pond | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 pond | amod |
| 27 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 edge | punct |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 edge | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 edge | det |
| 31 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 noticed | obl |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 noticed | nsubj |
| 35 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 edge | acl:relcl |
| 36 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 fishes | nummod |
| 37 | fishes | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 noticed | obj |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 entangled | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 entangled | aux |
| 40 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 entangled | aux:pass |
| 41 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 fishes | acl:relcl |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 reeds | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 reeds | det |
| 44 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 entangled | obl |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 gasping | cc |
| 46 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 47 gasping | aux |
| 47 | gasping | gasp | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 noticed | conj |
| 48 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 water | case |
| 49 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 gasping | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | haste's request | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set off | past | haste | haste's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | haste | the course of request | to a large pond; on the edge | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | notice | past | haste | three fishes | of the edge | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | entangle | past · perfect · passive | three fishes | in the reeds | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in reed=Theme | ||||
| 6 | gasp | past · progressive | haste not said here | for water | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for water=Recipient | ||||
| 7 | request | haste | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 8 | journey | haste | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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