The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 55

So the young man came out from his hiding-place and begged the sun to tell him if in the course of his travels he had not seen somewhere a palace that had not its like in the whole world, for its laths were of gold and its tiles of diamond, and all the furniture in silver and gold.

Who acts: young man, sun, palace, laths · What happens: come out, beg, tell, travel, not see, have · To what, where: hiding place, sun, palace · 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 (young man, sun, palace, laths), 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	_	5 came	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	from	from	ADP	_	11 place	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 place	nmod:poss
9	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 place	compound
10	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 hiding	punct
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 begged	cc
13	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sun	det
15	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 begged	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 tell	mark
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 begged	advcl
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 tell	ccomp
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 course	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 course	det
22	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 if	obl
23	of	of	SCONJ	_	25 travels	mark
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 travels	nmod:poss
25	travels	travel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 course	advcl
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 seen	nsubj
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 seen	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 seen	advmod
29	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	25 travels	ccomp
30	somewhere	somewhere	ADV	PronType=Ind	29 seen	advmod
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	obj
33	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 palace	acl:relcl
35	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 world	advmod
36	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 world	nmod:poss
37	like	like	ADP	_	41 world	case
38	in	in	ADP	_	41 world	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 world	det
40	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 world	amod
41	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 had	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 laths	punct
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 laths	case
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 laths	nmod:poss
45	laths	lath	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 gold	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 gold	cop
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 gold	case
48	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seen	parataxis
49	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 tiles	cc
50	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 tiles	nmod:poss
51	tiles	tile	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 gold	conj
52	of	of	ADP	_	53 diamond	case
53	diamond	diamond	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 tiles	nmod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 furniture	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 furniture	cc
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	58 furniture	det:predet
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 furniture	det
58	furniture	furniture	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	parataxis
59	in	in	ADP	_	60 silver	case
60	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 furniture	nmod
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	62 gold	cc
62	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 furniture	conj
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come out	past	the young man			man's hiding place	out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
2	beg speech: request	past	the young man not said here	the sun				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent sun=Recipient
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the young man not said here		sun			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	travel	present	the young man not said here					tree rules
5	not see	past · perfect	sun	a palace			somewhere property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus
6	have	past	a palace				like course's whole world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	is	past	world's laths				of gold and gold's tiles of diamond	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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