The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 18

Then the serpent said to Jenik, ‘Go wherever you see me go,’ for in the autumn, when all the serpents hide themselves in their holes, this serpent was going in search of his king, who was king of all the snakes.

Who acts: serpent, you, serpents, king · What happens: say, go, see, hide, be, search · To what, where: Jenik, me, party, holes, search, king · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (serpent, you, serpents, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 serpent	det
3	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Jenik	case
6	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
8	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 Go	punct
9	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
10	wherever	wherever	ADV	PronType=Int	12 see	advmod
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 see	nsubj
12	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 go	advcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 see	obj
14	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 Go	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
16	’	'	PUNCT	_	20 autumn	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	20 autumn	case
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 autumn	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 autumn	det
20	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hide	punct
22	when	when	SCONJ	_	26 hide	mark
23	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 serpents	det:predet
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 serpents	det
25	serpents	serpent	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hide	nsubj
26	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 autumn	parataxis
27	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 hide	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 holes	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 holes	nmod:poss
30	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hide	obl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 going	punct
32	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 serpent	det
33	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 going	nsubj
34	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 going	aux
35	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 holes	acl
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 search	case
37	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 going	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 king	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 king	nmod:poss
40	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 search	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 king	punct
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 king	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 king	cop
44	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 king	appos
45	of	of	ADP	_	48 snakes	case
46	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	48 snakes	det:predet
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 snakes	det
48	snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 king	nmod
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the serpent		Jenik		then		vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to jenik=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	present	you	me				wherever property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
4	go	infinitive							vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hide	present	all serpents	party		party's holes			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in hole=Location
6	go	past · progressive	this serpent	party's holes not said here		search of serpent's king			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hole=Theme
7	is a	past	serpent's king	king				of all snakes	tree rules
8	search			serpent's king					nom search «act transitive»: of=patient

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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