The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 17

Finally, in another place, he saved a serpent, which was also handed over to him and now they made a party of four--the dog behind Jenik, the cat behind the dog, and the serpent behind the cat.

Who acts: father, rejoicings · What happens: save, hand over, make · To what, where: serpent, place, father, party

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, rejoicings), 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	Finally	finally	ADV	_	8 saved	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Finally	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 place	case
4	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	5 place	det
5	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 place	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saved	nsubj
8	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 serpent	det
10	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 handed	punct
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 handed	nsubj:pass
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 handed	aux:pass
14	also	also	ADV	_	15 handed	advmod
15	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 serpent	parataxis
16	over	over	ADP	_	15 handed	compound:prt
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 him	case
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 handed	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
20	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 made	advmod
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 made	nsubj
22	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 handed	conj
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 party	det
24	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 made	obj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 four	case
26	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	24 party	nmod
27	--	--	PUNCT	_	29 dog	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dog	det
29	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 party	conj
30	behind	behind	ADP	_	31 Jenik	case
31	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 dog	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cat	punct
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cat	det
34	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 Jenik	appos
35	behind	behind	ADP	_	37 dog	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 dog	det
37	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 cat	nmod
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 serpent	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 serpent	cc
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 serpent	det
41	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 saved	obl
42	behind	behind	ADP	_	44 cat	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 cat	det
44	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 serpent	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 saved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	father	a serpent		another place		the serpent behind the cat obl; finally property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme
2	hand over	past · passive		a serpent	father				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to he=Destination
3	make	past	rejoicings = rejoicing	a party of four and the dog behind Jenik			now		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset party=Product

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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