The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 73
He was told that the head gardener at the castle had just left, and perhaps he might have a chance of getting the place.
Who acts: man, chance · What happens: tell, leave, have, get · To what, where: man, head gardener, chance, place · 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, chance), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 left | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardener | det |
| 6 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gardener | compound |
| 7 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 left | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gardener | nmod |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 left | aux |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 left | advmod |
| 13 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 have | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 have | cc |
| 16 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 19 have | advmod |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 have | nsubj |
| 18 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 have | aux |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 chance | det |
| 21 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 getting | mark |
| 23 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 chance | acl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 place | det |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 getting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | leave | past · perfect · passive | the head gardener at the castle | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | might | man | a chance | perhaps property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chance=Patient | |||
| 4 | get | gerund | a chance not said here | the place | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
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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