The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 6

This went on for some time till, one day, the servant who removed the dish was so overcome with curiosity, that he could not resist carrying it off to his own room.

Who acts: This, servant, King · What happens: go on, remove, be, not resist, carry off · To what, where: dish, time till, servant, own room

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 (This, servant, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 went	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	7 till	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 till	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 till	compound
7	till	till	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 till	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 servant	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 servant	det
13	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 overcome	nsubj
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 removed	nsubj
15	removed	remove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 servant	acl:relcl
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 dish	det
17	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 removed	obj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 overcome	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 overcome	advmod
20	overcome	overcome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 till	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 curiosity	case
22	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 overcome	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 resist	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 resist	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 resist	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 resist	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 resist	advmod
28	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 went	conj
29	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 resist	xcomp
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 carrying	obj
31	off	off	ADP	_	29 carrying	compound:prt
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 room	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 room	nmod:poss
34	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 room	amod
35	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 carrying	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go on	past	This			for some time till and one day	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remove	past	the servant	the dish			vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dish=Theme
3	is	past	the servant	some time till and one day not said here		with curiosity; overcome property	tree rules
4	not resist	could	King				tree rules
5	carry off	gerund	King not said here	servant	King's own room		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to room=Destination

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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