The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 22
And he told him plainly that he was a very powerful Prince; and that he hoped that they might all live together in one house or the other, and that the King would give him his daughter to wife.
Who acts: King, servants · What happens: tell, be, hope, live together, give · To what, where: man, powerful Prince, one house, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, servants), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 told | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 Prince | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 Prince | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 Prince | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 powerful | advmod |
| 11 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Prince | amod |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 hoped | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hoped | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 hoped | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hoped | nsubj |
| 17 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 live | mark |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 live | nsubj |
| 20 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 live | aux |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 22 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 hoped | ccomp |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 live | advmod |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 house | nummod |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 live | obl |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 29 other | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 other | det |
| 29 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 house | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 give | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 give | cc |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 give | mark |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 King | det |
| 34 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 give | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 give | aux |
| 36 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 give | iobj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | iobj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 wife | mark |
| 41 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 give | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | King | man | plainly property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is a | past | King | a powerful Prince | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hope | past | King | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | live together | might | servants = servant | one house | all, together property | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 5 | give | would | the King | King's daughter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient daughter=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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