The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 7
After carefully locking the door, he lifted the cover, and there he saw a white snake lying on the dish.
Who acts: King, white snake · What happens: lock, lift, see, lie · To what, where: door, cover, white snake, dish
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 (King, white snake), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 3 locking | mark |
| 2 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 3 locking | advmod |
| 3 | locking | lock | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lifted | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 door | det |
| 5 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 locking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 locking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lifted | nsubj |
| 8 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cover | det |
| 10 | cover | cover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lifted | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 saw | expl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 lifted | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 snake | det |
| 17 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 snake | amod |
| 18 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obj |
| 19 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 snake | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 dish | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 dish | det |
| 22 | dish | dish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lying | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock | gerund | King not said here | the door | carefully property | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient | |||
| 2 | lift | past | King | the cover | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cover=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | King | a white snake | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | lie | gerund | a white snake not said here | the dish | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on dish=Location |
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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