The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 64

But she bade her son eat and drink what was before him, and said that the poor young man was much to be pitied, and that the sun had granted him his life in order that he might consult the wind.

Who acts: mother, son, poor young man, sun · What happens: bade, eat, drink, say, be, pity · To what, where: sun, order, wind · 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 (mother, son, poor young man, sun), 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 bade	cc
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bade	nsubj
3	bade	bade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	nsubj
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 bade	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drink	cc
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 eat	conj
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 drink	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	acl:relcl
11	before	before	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 was	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 said	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 said	cc
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bade	conj
16	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 much	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
18	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 much	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 much	cop
22	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 said	ccomp
23	to	to	PART	_	25 pitied	mark
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 pitied	aux:pass
25	pitied	pity	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 much	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 granted	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 granted	cc
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 granted	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sun	det
30	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 granted	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 granted	aux
32	granted	grant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 bade	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 granted	obj
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 life	nmod:poss
35	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 granted	obj
36	in	in	ADP	_	37 order	case
37	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 granted	obl
38	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 consult	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 consult	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 consult	aux
41	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 order	acl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 wind	det
43	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 consult	obj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 bade	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bade	past	mother				tree rules
2	eat	infinitive	mother's son				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	drink	infinitive	mother's son not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	mother not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	the poor young man			much property	tree rules
6	pity	to-infinitive · passive	the poor young man not said here				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»
7	grant	past · perfect · passive		the sun	order		tree rules
8	consult	might	sun	the wind			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wind=Theme

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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