The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 59

She asked him what had put it into his head to come there, for her son ate everything he saw, and that he would shortly arrive quite mad, and that the young man had better look out.

Who acts: woman, son, sun, young man · What happens: ask, put, come, eat, see, arrive · To what, where: sun, home, head, everything · 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 (woman, son, 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 put	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 put	aux
6	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	ccomp
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 put	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 head	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 head	nmod:poss
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 come	mark
12	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 put	advcl
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 come	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 ate	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 ate	mark
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 son	nmod:poss
17	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 ate	nsubj
18	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
19	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 ate	obj
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 everything	acl:relcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 arrive	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 arrive	cc
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 arrive	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 arrive	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 arrive	aux
27	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	28 arrive	advmod
28	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 ate	conj
29	quite	quite	ADV	_	30 mad	advmod
30	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 arrive	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 had	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 had	cc
33	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 had	mark
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 man	det
35	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 man	amod
36	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 had	nsubj
37	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
38	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	37 had	xcomp
39	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 had	xcomp
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 look	compound:prt
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	woman		sun			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	put	past · perfect · passive		home		sun's head		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset it=Goal
3	come	to-infinitive				there		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	past	woman's son	everything				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient
5	see	past	sun					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	arrive	would	sun				mad, shortly property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	have	past	the young man				good property	tree rules
8	look out	infinitive	the young man not said here					vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

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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