--- title: Soon she beheld another snake coming after the other one, and when i… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Soon she beheld another snake coming after the other one, and when it had reached her it stopped and said, ‘Did you see a small grey snake pass this way just now?’ Who acts: snake, pot, you. A sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/66/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/) / [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/) / 66 # The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 66 Soon she beheld another snake coming after the other one, and when it had reached her it stopped and said, ‘Did you see a small grey snake pass this way just now?’ **Who acts:** snake, pot, you · **What happens:** behold, come, reach, stop, say, see · **To what, where:** snake, pot, small grey snake, way · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (snake, pot, you), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:21:66 # text = Soon she beheld another snake coming after the other one, and when it had reached her it stopped and said, ‘Did you see a small grey snake pass this way just now?’ 1 Soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 3 advmod _ _ 2 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 5 det _ _ 5 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 coming come VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ _ 7 after after ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 9 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 10 amod _ _ 10 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 13 when when SCONJ WRB _ 16 mark _ _ 14 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj:pass _ _ 15 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 reached reach VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 advcl _ _ 17 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 19 nsubj _ _ 19 stopped stop VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 19 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 23 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 26 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 24 Did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 aux _ _ 25 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 26 nsubj _ _ 26 see see VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 ccomp _ _ 27 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 28 small small ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 29 grey grey ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 30 amod _ _ 30 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 obj _ _ 31 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 26 conj _ _ 32 this this DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 33 det _ _ 33 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obj _ _ 34 just just ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 31 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ? ? PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 37 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **behold** | past | snake | another snake | | | | soon *property* | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | | 2 | **come** | gerund | another snake *not said here* | | | | after the other one | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **reach** | past · perfect · passive | | pot | | | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary she=Theme | | 4 | **stop** | past | pot | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | pot *not said here* | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **see** | past · do-support | you | a small grey snake | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus | | 7 | **pass** | infinitive | you *not said here* | this way | | | now | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | 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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/67/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/21/)