The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 56
And the sun said no, but that perhaps the wind had seen it, for he entered everywhere, and saw things that no one else ever saw, and if anyone knew where it was, it was certainly the wind.
Who acts: sun, one, anyone, furniture · What happens: say, see, enter, know, be · To what, where: wind, things · 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 (sun, one, anyone, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sun | det |
| 3 | sun | sun | 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 | _ | 13 seen | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 seen | cc |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 seen | mark |
| 9 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 seen | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 wind | det |
| 11 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | aux |
| 13 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 seen | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 entered | punct |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 entered | case |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seen | advcl |
| 19 | everywhere | everywhere | ADV | PronType=Tot | 18 entered | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saw | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 saw | cc |
| 22 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 saw | obj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 saw | obj |
| 25 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 26 one | det |
| 26 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 27 | else | else | ADV | _ | 26 one | advmod |
| 28 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 29 saw | advmod |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 things | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 knew | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 knew | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 knew | mark |
| 33 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 knew | nsubj |
| 34 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saw | conj |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 was | advmod |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 was | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 knew | ccomp |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 wind | punct |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 wind | nsubj |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 wind | cop |
| 41 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 43 wind | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 wind | det |
| 43 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the sun | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no=Topic | |||||
| 2 | see | past · perfect · passive | the wind | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | sun | everywhere property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | see | past | no one | things | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | be | past | furniture | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | is a | past | furniture | the wind | certainly property | 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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