The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 26
Having a very kind heart he dismounted and soon set the prisoners free, and in the water once more.
Who acts: haste · What happens: have, dismount, set · To what, where: kind heart, water, prisoners
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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 dismounted | csubj |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 heart | det |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 kind | advmod |
| 4 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heart | amod |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 dismounted | nsubj |
| 7 | dismounted | dismount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 set | advmod |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 dismounted | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 prisoners | det |
| 12 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 set | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 water | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 water | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 water | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 water | det |
| 18 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dismounted | obl |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 20 more | advmod |
| 20 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 water | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 dismounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | a kind heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 2 | dismount | past | haste | the water | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | set | infinitive | haste not said here | the prisoners | free, soon property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient prisoner=Result |
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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