The Green Fairy Book, The White Snake, sentence 8
On seeing it he could not restrain his desire to taste it, so he cut off a small piece and put it in his mouth.
Who acts: King · What happens: see, not restrain, taste, cut off, put, desire · To what, where: cover, desire, small piece, mouth
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), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 seeing | mark |
| 2 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 restrain | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 seeing | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 restrain | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 restrain | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 restrain | advmod |
| 7 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 desire | nmod:poss |
| 9 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 restrain | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 taste | mark |
| 11 | taste | taste | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 desire | acl |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 taste | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 cut | punct |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 cut | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 cut | nsubj |
| 16 | cut | cut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 restrain | advcl |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 cut | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 piece | det |
| 19 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 piece | amod |
| 20 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cut | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 put | cc |
| 22 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 restrain | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 put | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 mouth | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 26 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 put | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 restrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | King not said here | cover | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not restrain | could | King | King's desire | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer desire=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | taste | to-infinitive | King not said here | cover | vn seem-109 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Theme it=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | cut off | past | King | a small piece | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector piece=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | put | infinitive | King not said here | cover | King's mouth | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in mouth=Destination | |||
| 6 | desire | King | nom desire «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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