The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 2
One day, as he was walking along, he picked up a snuff-box.
Who acts: man · What happens: walk, pick up · To what, where: snuff box
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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 walking | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 walking | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 walking | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 walking | aux |
| 7 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 day | conj |
| 8 | along | along | ADV | _ | 7 walking | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 picked | nsubj |
| 11 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 picked | compound:prt |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 box | det |
| 14 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 box | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 snuff | punct |
| 16 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 picked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past · progressive | man | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pick up | past | man | a snuff box | day | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic |
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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