The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 74

The young man lost no time, but walked up to the castle and asked if they were in want of a gardener; and how happy he was when they agreed to take him!

Who acts: young man, laths, man · What happens: lose, walk up, ask, be, take · To what, where: want, man

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 (young man, laths, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 walked	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 walked	cc
9	walked	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	parataxis
10	up	up	ADP	_	9 walked	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 castle	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 castle	det
13	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 walked	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 asked	cc
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 walked	conj
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 want	mark
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 want	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 want	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 want	case
20	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	ccomp
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 gardener	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 gardener	det
23	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 want	nmod
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 happy	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 happy	cc
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 happy	advmod
27	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lost	parataxis
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 agreed	nsubj
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 agreed	cop
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 agreed	advmod
31	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 agreed	nsubj
32	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 happy	parataxis
33	to	to	PART	_	34 take	mark
34	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 agreed	xcomp
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 take	obj
36	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the young man			time		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk up	past					to the castle result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to castle=Result
3	ask speech: ask	past						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a condition, not said to happen	past	laths = lath		want		of a gardener	tree rules
5	is	past	man				agree property	tree rules
6	take not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	man				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination

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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