The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 26

The Princess had told her mother about the snuff-box, which gave them everything they wanted, and the Queen bribed a servant to steal the snuff-box.

Who acts: Princess, snuff box, servants, Queen · What happens: tell, give, want, bribe, steal · To what, where: mother, everything, servants, servant, snuff box · 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 (Princess, snuff box, servants, Queen), 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	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	aux
4	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	about	about	ADP	_	11 box	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 box	det
9	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 box	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 snuff	punct
11	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mother	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gave	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 gave	nsubj
14	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 box	acl:relcl
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 gave	iobj
16	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 gave	obj
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wanted	nsubj
18	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 everything	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 bribed	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 bribed	cc
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Queen	det
22	Queen	Queen	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 bribed	nsubj
23	bribed	bribe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 servant	det
25	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bribed	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 steal	mark
27	steal	steal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 bribed	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 box	det
29	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 box	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 snuff	punct
31	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 steal	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · perfect	the Princess		Princess's mother	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient about box=Topic
2	give	past	the snuff box	everything	servants = servant	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient everything=Theme
3	want	past	servants = servant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	bribe	past	the Queen	a servant		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Patient
5	steal	to-infinitive	the Queen not said here	the snuff box		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location box=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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