The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 46
And the moon said no, but that the sun travelled farther than he did, and that the young man had better go and ask him.
Who acts: moon, sun, young man · What happens: say, travel, do, have, go, ask · To what, where: 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 (moon, sun, young 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moon | det |
| 3 | moon | moon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 travelled | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 travelled | cc |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 travelled | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sun | det |
| 10 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 travelled | nsubj |
| 11 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 travelled | advmod |
| 13 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 15 did | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 farther | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 man | det |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 man | amod |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 travelled | conj |
| 23 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 had | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 had | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 ask | cc |
| 26 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 go | conj |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 ask | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the moon | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 2 | travel | past | the sun | far property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | do | past | sun | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | the young man | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the young man not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the young man not said here | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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