The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 44

One morning he went into the treasure room, and took notice of a beautiful snuff-box on the table that he didn’t remember seeing there before.

Who acts: prince · What happens: go, take, not remember, not see, notice · To what, where: treasure room, notice, table, beautiful snuff box

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 morning	nummod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 room	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
7	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 room	compound
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 took	cc
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 went	conj
12	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
13	of	of	ADP	_	18 box	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 box	det
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 box	amod
16	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 box	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 snuff	punct
18	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 notice	nmod
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 table	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 remember	mark
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 remember	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 remember	aux
25	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 remember	advmod
26	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 took	advcl
27	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 remember	xcomp
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 seeing	advmod
29	before	before	ADV	_	27 seeing	advmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	prince		the treasure room	morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	take	past	prince not said here	notice of a beautiful snuff box	the table			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent notice=Theme on table=Destination
3	not remember	past · do-support	prince					vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	not see	gerund	prince not said here		there		before property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	notice			a beautiful snuff box				nom notice «communication 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 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.

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