The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 40

But the young man told her all his sad tale, and how he possessed a wonderful snuff-box, and how it had been stolen from him, and how he had nothing left, now that he was parted from his wife and was in need of everything.

Who acts: young man, man · What happens: tell, possess, steal, have, leave, part · To what, where: sad tale, woman, wonderful snuff box, tale, nothing, man · 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 (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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 tale	det:predet
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tale	nmod:poss
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tale	amod
10	tale	tale	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 possessed	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 possessed	cc
13	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 possessed	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 possessed	nsubj
15	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 box	det
17	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 box	amod
18	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 box	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 snuff	punct
20	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 possessed	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stolen	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stolen	cc
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 stolen	advmod
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stolen	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stolen	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 stolen	aux:pass
27	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 possessed	conj
28	from	from	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 stolen	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 had	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 had	cc
32	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	34 had	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 told	parataxis
35	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	34 had	obj
36	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 nothing	acl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 left	punct
38	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	36 left	advmod
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	42 parted	mark
40	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 parted	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 parted	aux:pass
42	parted	part	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 left	advcl
43	from	from	ADP	_	45 wife	case
44	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 wife	nmod:poss
45	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 parted	obl
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 need	cc
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 need	cop
48	in	in	ADP	_	49 need	case
49	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	conj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 everything	case
51	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	49 need	nmod
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the young man	man's sad tale	woman				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient tale=Topic
2	possess	past	man	a wonderful snuff box					vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot box=Theme
3	steal	past · perfect · passive		tale				from man	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from he=Source
4	have	past	man	nothing					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient
5	leave	participle					now		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	part	past · passive		man				from man's wife	vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from wife=Co-Patient
7	is	past	man not said here			need		of everything	tree rules
8	tell		man						nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=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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