The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 4

He was very much frightened, but, luckily, instead of throwing the box away, he only shut it tight, and put it in his pocket.

Who acts: man · What happens: frighten, throw away, shut, put · To what, where: man, box, language, pocket

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frightened	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	aux:pass
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
5	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 luckily	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 luckily	cc
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 luckily	punct
9	luckily	luckily	ADV	_	5 frightened	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 throwing	punct
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 throwing	mark
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 frightened	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 box	det
15	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 throwing	obj
16	away	away	ADV	_	13 throwing	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 shut	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shut	nsubj
19	only	only	ADV	_	20 shut	advmod
20	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 throwing	conj
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 shut	obj
22	tight	tight	ADV	_	20 shut	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 put	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 put	cc
25	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 frightened	parataxis
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 put	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 pocket	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 pocket	nmod:poss
29	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 put	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		man		luckily property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	throw away	gerund		the box		away property	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
3	shut	past	man	language		tight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient
4	put	infinitive		language	man's pocket		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination

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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