The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 31

The servant at once turned into a side path, and the Ant-King called after him, ‘We’ll remember and reward you.’

Who acts: servant, We · What happens: turn, call, remember, reward · To what, where: servant, side path, Ant King, you · 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, We), 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 servant	det
2	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	at	at	SCONJ	_	5 turned	mark
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 turned	advmod
5	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 servant	acl
6	into	into	ADP	_	9 path	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 path	det
8	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 path	compound
9	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 turned	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 called	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 called	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 King	det
13	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 King	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Ant	punct
15	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 called	nsubj:pass
16	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 servant	acl
17	after	after	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 called	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remember	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 remember	punct
21	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 remember	nsubj
22	’ll	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 remember	aux
23	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 called	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 reward	cc
25	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 remember	conj
26	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 reward	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 servant	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	participle		the servant not said here		a side path		once property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into path=Trajectory
2	call speech: assert	participle · passive	the servant not said here	the Ant King			after haste		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
3	remember	future	We						vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	reward	infinitive	We not said here		you				vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient

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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