The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 46

Martin examined the contents of the sacks, and seeing that one was full of silver and the other of sand, he said to himself:

Who acts: Martin, one · What happens: examine, see, be, say · To what, where: contents, Martin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Martin, 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 examined	nsubj
2	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 contents	det
4	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	2 examined	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 sacks	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sacks	det
7	sacks	sack	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 contents	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 said	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 said	cc
10	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 said	advcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 full	mark
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 full	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 full	cop
14	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 seeing	ccomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 silver	case
16	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 full	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 other	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 other	det
19	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 full	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sand	case
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 other	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seeing	punct
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 said	nsubj
24	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 examined	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 himself	case
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 said	obl
27	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	examine	past	Martin	the contents of the sacks			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent contents=Theme
2	see	gerund	Martin not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	past	one			of silver; full property	tree rules
4	be		one not said here			of sand	tree rules
5	say speech: assert	past	Martin		Martin		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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