The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 34

On he went, away, away, away, but he sought the snuff-box in vain all up and down the neighbouring countries, and very soon he came to the end of all his money.

Who acts: man · What happens: go, seek, come · To what, where: snuff box, vain, end

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), 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	On	on	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 away	punct
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 away	punct
7	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 away	punct
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sought	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 sought	cc
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 sought	nsubj
13	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 box	det
15	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 box	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 snuff	punct
17	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sought	obj
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 vain	case
19	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 box	nmod
20	all	all	ADV	_	21 up	advmod
21	up	up	ADV	_	26 countries	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 countries	cc
23	down	down	ADP	_	26 countries	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 countries	det
25	neighbouring	neighbouring	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 countries	amod
26	countries	country	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sought	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 came	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 came	cc
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 soon	advmod
30	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 came	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 end	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 came	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	39 money	case
37	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 money	det:predet
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 money	nmod:poss
39	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	man				away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seek	past	man	the snuff box	vain		down the neighbouring countries	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent box=Theme in vain=Location
3	come	past	man			to the end of man's money	soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to end=Initial_Location

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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