The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 66
And he added that he had been shamefully robbed, and that the laths were of gold and the tiles of diamond, and all the furniture in silver and gold, and he inquired if the wind had not seen such a palace during his wanderings.
Who acts: man, laths · What happens: add, rob, be, inquire, not see, wander · To what, where: man, 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 (man, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 added | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 added | nsubj |
| 3 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 robbed | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 robbed | aux |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 robbed | aux:pass |
| 8 | shamefully | shamefully | ADV | _ | 9 robbed | advmod |
| 9 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 added | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gold | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gold | cc |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 gold | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 laths | det |
| 14 | laths | lath | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gold | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 gold | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 tiles | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tiles | det |
| 20 | tiles | tile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gold | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 diamond | case |
| 22 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tiles | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 furniture | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 furniture | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 furniture | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 furniture | det |
| 27 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 added | parataxis |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 silver | case |
| 29 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 furniture | nmod |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 gold | cc |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 furniture | conj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 inquired | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 inquired | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 inquired | nsubj |
| 35 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 added | conj |
| 36 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 41 seen | mark |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 wind | det |
| 38 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seen | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 seen | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 seen | advmod |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 inquired | advcl |
| 42 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 44 palace | det:predet |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 palace | det |
| 44 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 seen | obj |
| 45 | during | during | ADP | _ | 47 wanderings | case |
| 46 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 47 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 seen | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | rob | past · perfect · passive | man | shamefully property | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the laths | of gold and the tiles of diamond | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not see a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | the wind | during man's wanderings | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | wander | man | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=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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