The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 3

He opened it, and the snuff-box said to him in the Spanish language, ‘What do you want?’

Who acts: man, snuff box, you · What happens: open, say, want · To what, where: box, man, Spanish language · 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 (man, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc 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	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 box	det
7	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 box	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 snuff	punct
9	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 language	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 language	det
15	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 language	amod
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 want	obj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 want	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 want	nsubj
22	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	22 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	open	past	man	box			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the snuff box		man	the Spanish language	vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to he=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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