The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 36

Someone told him that he ought to consult the moon, for the moon travelled far, and might be able to tell him something.

Who acts: Someone, man, moon · What happens: tell, consult, travel, be · To what, where: man, moon, something · 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 (Someone, man, moon), 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	Someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 consult	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 consult	nsubj
6	ought	ought	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 consult	aux
7	to	to	PART	_	8 consult	mark
8	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 told	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 moon	det
10	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 consult	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 travelled	punct
12	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 travelled	mark
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 moon	det
14	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 travelled	nsubj
15	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
16	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	15 travelled	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 able	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 able	cc
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 able	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	cop
21	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 travelled	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 tell	mark
23	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 able	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 tell	iobj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	23 tell	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Someone		man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	consult not said to happen	ought	man	the moon			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moon=Theme
3	travel	past	the moon			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	might	the moon not said here			able property	tree rules
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the moon not said here	something	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient something=Topic

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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