The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 44

So he went boldly up to the moon, and asked if by any accident he had seen a palace with the laths of gold and the tiles of diamond, and all the furniture of silver and gold.

Who acts: son · What happens: go, ask, see · To what, where: furniture, moon, palace

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 went	advmod
5	up	up	ADP	_	8 moon	case
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 moon	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 moon	det
8	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 asked	cc
11	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 went	parataxis
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 seen	mark
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 accident	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 accident	det
15	accident	accident	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seen	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seen	aux
18	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 asked	advcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 palace	det
20	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seen	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	23 laths	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 laths	det
23	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 palace	nmod
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 gold	case
25	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 laths	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tiles	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tiles	det
28	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 gold	conj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 diamond	case
30	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tiles	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 furniture	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 furniture	cc
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 furniture	det:predet
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 furniture	det
35	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 silver	case
37	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 furniture	nmod
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 gold	cc
39	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 furniture	conj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	son	all furniture of silver and gold	the moon	boldly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme up moon=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	participle					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	see a condition, not said to happen	past · perfect	son	a palace		by any accident; with the laths of gold and the tiles of diamond	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus

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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