--- title: After a little time a second snake crept out of the corner, but when… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: After a little time a second snake crept out of the corner, but when it saw the first one lying dead and in pieces it went back and came again soon, holding three green leaves in its mouth. Who acts: second snake, snake, first one. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/26/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Three Snake-leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/) / 26 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 26 After a little time a second snake crept out of the corner, but when it saw the first one lying dead and in pieces it went back and came again soon, holding three green leaves in its mouth. **Who acts:** second snake, snake, first one · **What happens:** creep out, see, lie, go back, come, hold · **To what, where:** corner, first one, pieces, three green leaves, mouth This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (second snake, snake, first one), 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:pg7277:46:26 # text = After a little time a second snake crept out of the corner, but when it saw the first one lying dead and in pieces it went back and came again soon, holding three green leaves in its mouth. 1 After after ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 3 little little ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 6 second second ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 7 amod _ _ 7 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 8 crept creep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 out out ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 corner corner NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 but but CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 17 advmod _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 saw see VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 8 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 20 amod _ _ 20 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 21 lying lie VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 20 acl _ _ 22 dead dead ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 xcomp _ _ 23 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 24 in in ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ _ 26 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 27 went go VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 17 conj _ _ 28 back back ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 29 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 30 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 conj _ _ 31 again again ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 32 soon soon ADV RB Degree=Pos 30 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 34 holding hold VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 30 advcl _ _ 35 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 37 nummod _ _ 36 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 38 in in ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **creep out** | past | a second snake | the corner | | | time | | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location corner=Theme | | 2 | **see** | past | snake | the first one | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus | | 3 | **lie** | gerund | the first one *not said here* | | | | | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **go back** | past | snake | | | pieces | | | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **come** | past | snake *not said here* | | | | again | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 6 | **hold** | gerund | snake *not said here* | three green leaves | | snake's mouth | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent leaf=Theme in mouth=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. - ← previous: [sentence 25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/25/) - next →: [sentence 27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/27/) - ↑ back to [The Three Snake-leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/)