The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 43

But his mother told him that it was an unhappy man who had lost everything, and had come all this way to consult him, and bade the young man not to be afraid, but to come forward and show himself.

Who acts: mother, moon, unhappy man, bade · What happens: tell, be, lose, come, consult, not be · To what, where: son, unhappy man, everything, way · 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 (mother, moon, unhappy man, bade), 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	_	4 told	cc
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mother	nmod:poss
3	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 told	iobj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 man	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 man	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 man	cop
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 man	det
10	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 man	amod
11	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	ccomp
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 lost	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 lost	aux
14	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 man	acl:relcl
15	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	14 lost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 come	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 come	cc
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 told	parataxis
20	all	all	ADV	_	22 way	advmod
21	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 way	det
22	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 consult	mark
24	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 way	acl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 consult	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 afraid	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 afraid	cc
28	bade	bade	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 afraid	nsubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 man	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 man	amod
31	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 afraid	nsubj
32	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 afraid	advmod
33	to	to	PART	_	35 afraid	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 afraid	cop
35	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 told	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 come	punct
37	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 come	cc
38	to	to	PART	_	39 come	mark
39	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 afraid	parataxis
40	forward	forward	ADV	_	39 come	advmod
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 show	cc
42	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 come	conj
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 show	iobj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	son's mother		son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	is a	past	moon	a unhappy man			tree rules
3	lose	past · perfect	a unhappy man	everything			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
4	come	past · perfect		this way			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	consult	to-infinitive		son			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	not is	to-infinitive	bade			afraid property	tree rules
7	come forward	to-infinitive				forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	show	infinitive			son		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient

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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