The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 16
The young man did not reply, but when it grew dark he took his snuff-box and opened the lid.
Who acts: young man, castle, man · What happens: not reply, grow, take, open · To what, where: snuff box, lid
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 (young man, castle, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 reply | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reply | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 reply | advmod |
| 6 | reply | reply | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 took | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 grew | advmod |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 grew | nsubj |
| 11 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | advcl |
| 12 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 grew | xcomp |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 took | nsubj |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 reply | parataxis |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 box | nmod:poss |
| 16 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 box | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 snuff | punct |
| 18 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 opened | cc |
| 20 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 took | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 lid | det |
| 22 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 opened | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 reply | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reply speech: assert | past · do-support | the young man | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | grow | past | castle | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | past | man | man's snuff box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 4 | open | past | man not said here | the lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=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 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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