The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 41

And he said that perhaps her son, who travelled so far, might have seen a palace with laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and furnished all in silver and gold.

Who acts: man, son · What happens: say, travel, see, furnish · To what, where: son, silver · 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 (man, son), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 seen	mark
5	perhaps	perhaps	ADV	_	7 son	advmod
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	nsubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 travelled	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 travelled	nsubj
10	travelled	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 son	acl:relcl
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 far	advmod
12	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 travelled	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
14	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 seen	aux
15	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 seen	aux
16	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 said	ccomp
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 palace	det
18	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 seen	obj
19	with	with	ADP	_	20 laths	case
20	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 palace	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 gold	case
22	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 laths	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 tiles	cc
24	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 gold	conj
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 diamond	case
26	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 tiles	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 furnished	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 furnished	cc
29	furnished	furnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
30	all	all	ADV	_	29 furnished	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 silver	case
32	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 furnished	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 gold	cc
34	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 silver	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	man				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	travel	past	woman's son			far property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	might · perfect · passive		woman's son			tree rules
4	furnish	past	man not said here		silver and gold	all property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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