The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 39
My son eats all living things he sees, and if you are wise, you will go away without coming any further.’
Who acts: son, you · What happens: eat, live, see, be, go away, come · To what, where: living things
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 (son, 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 son | nmod:poss |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 eats | nsubj |
| 3 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 living | advmod |
| 5 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 things | amod |
| 6 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 eats | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sees | nsubj |
| 8 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 things | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 go | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 go | cc |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 wise | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 wise | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wise | cop |
| 14 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 go | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wise | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 go | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 go | aux |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 eats | parataxis |
| 19 | away | away | ADV | _ | 18 go | advmod |
| 20 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 coming | mark |
| 21 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 go | advcl |
| 22 | any | any | ADV | _ | 23 further | advmod |
| 23 | further | further | ADV | _ | 21 coming | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 eats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | My son | living things | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | all property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | see | present | son | living things not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | wise property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go away | future | you | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | come | gerund | you not said here | further property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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