The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 72
And he enquired if anyone wanted a gardener.
Who acts: man, anyone · What happens: enquire, want · To what, where: gardener
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, anyone), 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 enquired | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 enquired | nsubj |
| 3 | enquired | enquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 wanted | mark |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 wanted | nsubj |
| 6 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enquired | ccomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 gardener | det |
| 8 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wanted | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enquire speech: other | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | want a condition, not said to happen | past | anyone | a gardener | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot gardener=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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