The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 5

It was covered, and neither the servant nor anyone else had any idea what was on it, for the King never removed the cover or partook of the dish, till he was quite alone.

Who acts: servant, idea, King · What happens: cover, have, be, not remove, partake · To what, where: servant, idea, cover

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, idea, King), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 covered	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	aux:pass
3	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 had	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 had	cc
6	neither	neither	ADV	_	8 servant	advmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 servant	det
8	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	nsubj
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 anyone	cc
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	8 servant	conj
11	else	else	ADV	_	10 anyone	advmod
12	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	conj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 idea	det
14	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 had	obj
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 it	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 it	cop
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 idea	acl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 removed	punct
20	for	for	SCONJ	_	24 removed	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 King	det
22	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 removed	nsubj
23	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	24 removed	advmod
24	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 covered	parataxis
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cover	det
26	cover	cover	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 removed	obj
27	or	or	CCONJ	_	28 partook	cc
28	partook	partake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 removed	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 dish	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dish	det
31	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 partook	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 alone	punct
33	till	till	SCONJ	_	37 alone	mark
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 alone	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 alone	cop
36	quite	quite	ADV	_	37 alone	advmod
37	alone	alone	ADV	_	28 partook	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 covered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cover	past · passive		servant			vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination
2	have	past	the servant	any idea			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient
3	is	past	any idea		idea		tree rules
4	not remove	past	the King	the cover			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme
5	partake	past	the King not said here			of the dish	tree rules
6	is	past	King			alone property	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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