The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 7
So he took out the snuff-box and opened it, and again it asked ‘What do you want?’
Who acts: man, pocket, you · What happens: take out, open, ask, want · To what, where: snuff box, pocket · 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, pocket, you), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 6 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 box | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 snuff | punct |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 opened | cc |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 opened | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 asked | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 18 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 want | obj |
| 19 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 want | aux |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 want | nsubj |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 23 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | man | the snuff box | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | past | man not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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