The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 33
The young man felt that no time was to be lost, and he mounted his horse and filled his pockets with as much gold as he could carry.
Who acts: young man, man · What happens: feel, lose, mount, fill, carry · To what, where: horse, pockets
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 (young man, man), 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 | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 lost | mark |
| 6 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lost | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 lost | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 lost | aux:pass |
| 11 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 felt | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mounted | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 mounted | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mounted | nsubj |
| 15 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 felt | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 horse | nmod:poss |
| 17 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mounted | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 filled | cc |
| 19 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 mounted | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 pockets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pockets | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 filled | obj | |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 gold | amod |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 filled | obl |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 carry | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 filled | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the young man | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | lose | past · passive | the young man not said here | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 3 | mount | past | man | man's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | fill | past | man not said here | man's pockets | with much gold | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent pocket=Patient with gold=Instrument | |||
| 5 | carry | could | man | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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