The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 10
Henceforth he should never be in need of anything.
Who acts: man · What happens: not be · To what, where: need
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | Henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 7 need | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 need | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 need | aux |
| 4 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 need | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 need | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 need | case |
| 7 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 anything | case |
| 9 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 need | nmod |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 need | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | should | man | need | of anything; henceforth property | tree rules |
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.
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