The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 29

She opened the lid, and the snuff-box said to her ‘What do you want?’

Who acts: Queen, snuff box, you · What happens: open, say, want · To what, where: lid, Queen · 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 (Queen, snuff box, you), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lid	det
4	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 box	det
8	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 box	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 snuff	punct
10	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 her	case
13	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	obl
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
15	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 want	obj
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 want	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 want	nsubj
18	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	open	past	Queen	the lid		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the snuff box		Queen	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
3	want	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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