--- title: He took the drowned man out of the water, and with the help of the t… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: He took the drowned man out of the water, and with the help of the three snake-leaves which he carried with him, placing them on his mouth and eyes, he brought him to life again. Who acts: servant. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Snake-leaves, with its dependency tree --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/43/) [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/) / 43 # The Green Fairy Book, The Three Snake-leaves, sentence 43 He took the drowned man out of the water, and with the help of the three snake-leaves which he carried with him, placing them on his mouth and eyes, he brought him to life again. **Who acts:** servant · **What happens:** take, drown, carry, place, bring, help · **To what, where:** drowned man, water, three snake leaves, leaves, mouth, King 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 (servant), 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:pg7277:46:43 # text = He took the drowned man out of the water, and with the help of the three snake-leaves which he carried with him, placing them on his mouth and eyes, he brought him to life again. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 took take VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 drowned drown VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 6 out out ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 water water NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 36 cc _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 help help NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 17 three three NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 18 snake snake NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 19 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 18 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 20 leaves leaf NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 21 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 23 obj _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 carried carry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 acl:relcl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 26 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 27 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 23 advcl _ _ 28 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 obj _ _ 29 on on ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 31 nmod:poss _ _ 31 mouth mouth NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 35 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nsubj _ _ 36 brought bring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 37 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 to to ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 life life NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obl _ _ 40 again again ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **take** | past | servant | the drowned man | | the water | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent man=Theme out water=Initial\_Location | | 2 | **drown** | participle | | | | | | | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **carry** | past | servant | the three snake leaves | | | | with King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | | 4 | **place** | gerund | servant *not said here* | leaves *= leaf* | | King's mouth and eyes | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme on mouth=Destination | | 5 | **bring** | past | servant | King | | life | again | with the help of the three snake leaves | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to life=Destination | | 6 | **help** | | | the three snake leaves | | | | | nom help «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. - ← previous: [sentence 42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/42/) - next →: [sentence 44](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/44/) - ↑ back to [The Three Snake-leaves](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/46/)