The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 63

Thirsty as he was, he did not wait to drink, but he told his mother that he smelt the blood of a Christian man, and that she had better bring him out at once and make him ready to be eaten.

Who acts: sun, mother · What happens: be, not wait, drink, tell, smelt, have · To what, where: mother, blood, sun · 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, mother), 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	Thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wait	advcl
2	as	as	SCONJ	_	4 was	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 was	nsubj
4	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Thirsty	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 wait	nsubj
7	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wait	advmod
9	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	to	to	PART	_	11 drink	mark
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 wait	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 told	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 told	cc
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 told	nsubj
15	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 wait	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mother	nmod:poss
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 told	iobj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 smelt	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 smelt	nsubj
20	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 told	ccomp
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 blood	det
22	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 smelt	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 man	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 man	det
25	Christian	Christian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 man	amod
26	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blood	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 had	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 had	cc
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 had	mark
30	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 had	nsubj
31	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 smelt	conj
32	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	31 had	advmod
33	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 had	xcomp
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 bring	obj
35	out	out	ADP	_	33 bring	compound:prt
36	at	at	ADP	_	37 once	case
37	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	33 bring	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 make	cc
39	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 bring	conj
40	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 make	obj
41	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 make	xcomp
42	to	to	PART	_	44 eaten	mark
43	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	44 eaten	aux:pass
44	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	41 ready	xcomp
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wait	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	be	past	sun				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not wait	past · do-support	sun				tree rules
3	drink	to-infinitive	sun not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	tell speech: assert	past	sun		sun's mother		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
5	smelt	past	sun	the blood of a Christian man			tree rules
6	have	past	mother			well property	tree rules
7	bring out	infinitive	mother not said here	sun			vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	make	infinitive	mother not said here	sun		ready property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
9	eat	to-infinitive · passive	sun not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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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