The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 27

They noticed carefully where it was put away every night, and one evening, when the whole world was asleep, the woman stole it and brought it to her old mistress.

Who acts: servants, whole world, woman · What happens: notice, put away, be, steal, bring · To what, where: gold, world, old mistress · 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 (servants, whole world, woman), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 noticed	nsubj
2	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	2 noticed	advmod
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 put	advmod
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 put	nsubj:pass
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 put	aux:pass
7	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 noticed	ccomp
8	away	away	ADV	_	7 put	advmod
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 night	det
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stole	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 stole	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 evening	nummod
14	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stole	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 asleep	punct
16	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 asleep	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 world	det
18	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 world	amod
19	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 asleep	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 asleep	cop
21	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 evening	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 stole	punct
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 woman	det
24	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stole	nsubj
25	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 noticed	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stole	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 brought	cc
28	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stole	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 brought	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 mistress	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 mistress	nmod:poss
32	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 mistress	amod
33	mistress	mistress	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 brought	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	servants = servant				carefully property	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	put away	past · passive		gold		night	away property	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
3	is	past	the whole world				asleep property	tree rules
4	steal	past	the woman	world		evening		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
5	bring	past	the woman not said here	world	woman's old mistress			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mistress=Destination

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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