The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 5

Then he went on, away, away, away, and as he went he said to himself, ‘If it says to me again “What do you want?”

Who acts: man, language, you · What happens: go on, go, say, want · To what, where: man, me · 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, language, you), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	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	on	on	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 away	punct
6	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 away	punct
8	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 away	punct
10	away	away	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 went	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 went	cc
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 went	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 went	nsubj
15	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 said	advcl
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 said	nsubj
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	19 himself	case
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 said	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 says	punct
22	If	if	SCONJ	_	24 says	mark
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 says	nsubj
24	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 said	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 me	case
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 says	obl
27	again	again	ADV	_	24 says	advmod
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	32 want	punct
29	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	32 want	obj
30	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 want	aux
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 want	nsubj
32	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 says	ccomp
33	?	?	PUNCT	_	32 want	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 want	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	go on	past	man		then	away property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	man				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	man	man			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
4	say speech: ask a condition, not said to happen	present	language	me	again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic
5	want in a quote	present · do-support	you				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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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