The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 91

If he rubbed once, the dog that sat on the chest of copper appeared; if he rubbed twice, there came the dog that watched over the silver chest; and if he rubbed three times, the one that guarded the gold appeared.

Who acts: soldier, dog, one · What happens: rub, sit, appear, come, watch, guard · To what, where: chest, silver chest, gold

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soldier, dog, 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 rubbed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	nsubj
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 appeared	advcl
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 rubbed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 rubbed	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 appeared	nsubj
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 sat	nsubj
9	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dog	acl:relcl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 chest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 chest	det
12	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 sat	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 copper	case
14	copper	copper	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chest	nmod
15	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 rubbed	punct
17	if	if	SCONJ	_	19 rubbed	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 rubbed	nsubj
19	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 appeared	parataxis
20	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	19 rubbed	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 came	expl
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 rubbed	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dog	det
25	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
26	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 watched	nsubj
27	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 dog	acl:relcl
28	over	over	ADP	_	31 chest	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 chest	det
30	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 chest	compound
31	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 watched	obl
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 rubbed	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rubbed	cc
34	if	if	SCONJ	_	36 rubbed	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 rubbed	nsubj
36	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 appeared	parataxis
37	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 times	nummod
38	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 rubbed	obl:unmarked
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 appeared	punct
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 one	det
41	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 appeared	nsubj
42	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	43 guarded	nsubj
43	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 one	acl:relcl
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 gold	det
45	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 guarded	obj
46	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 rubbed	conj
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 appeared	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rub a condition, not said to happen	past	soldier				once property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	sit	past	the dog		the chest of copper			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on chest=Location
3	appear	past	the dog					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	rub a condition, not said to happen	past	soldier				twice property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	come	past	the dog		there			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	watch	past	the dog		the silver chest			vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over chest=Location
7	rub a condition, not said to happen	past	soldier			time		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
8	guard	past	the one	the gold				vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Beneficiary
9	appear	past	the one					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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