The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 50

But he said no, and that he would not go, for he was so miserable that it was all one to him whether he died or not; that he had lost everything, and especially a splendid palace like none other in the whole world, for it had laths of gold and tiles of diamond, and all the furniture was of silver and gold.

Who acts: son, horse, furniture · What happens: say, not go, be, die, lose, have · To what, where: one, son, everything, laths · 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 (son, horse, furniture), 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	_	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	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 said	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 go	cc
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 go	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 go	advmod
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 miserable	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 miserable	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 miserable	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 miserable	cop
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 miserable	advmod
17	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 one	mark
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 one	cop
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 one	det
22	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 miserable	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	27 died	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 died	nsubj
27	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	advcl
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 not	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 died	conj
30	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 lost	punct
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 lost	mark
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 lost	nsubj
33	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lost	aux
34	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	conj
35	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	34 lost	obj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 palace	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 palace	cc
38	especially	especially	ADV	_	41 palace	advmod
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 palace	det
40	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 palace	amod
41	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 lost	obl
42	like	like	ADP	_	43 none	case
43	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	41 palace	nmod
44	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 none	amod
45	in	in	ADP	_	48 world	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 world	det
47	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 world	amod
48	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 other	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 had	punct
50	for	for	ADP	_	52 had	case
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 had	nsubj
52	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 lost	conj
53	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	52 had	obj
54	of	of	ADP	_	55 gold	case
55	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 laths	nmod
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 tiles	cc
57	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 laths	conj
58	of	of	ADP	_	59 diamond	case
59	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 tiles	nmod
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 silver	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 silver	cc
62	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	64 furniture	det:predet
63	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	64 furniture	det
64	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 silver	nsubj
65	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	67 silver	cop
66	of	of	ADP	_	67 silver	case
67	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 had	parataxis
68	and	and	CCONJ	_	69 gold	cc
69	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 silver	conj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	son				tree rules
2	not go	would	son				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	son			miserable property	tree rules
4	is a	past	horse	all one	son		tree rules
5	die	past	son				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	lose	past · perfect	son	everything		a splendid palace like none obl	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Eventuality
7	have	past	horse	laths of gold and tiles of diamond			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lath=Patient
8	is	past	all furniture			of silver and gold	tree rules

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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