The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 75
Now he passed most of his day in gossiping with the servants about the wealth of their masters and the wonderful things in the house.
Who acts: man · What happens: pass, gossip · To what, where: most
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), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 passed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 passed | nsubj |
| 3 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 passed | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 day | nmod:poss |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 most | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 gossiping | mark |
| 9 | gossiping | gossip | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 passed | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 servants | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 servants | det |
| 12 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 gossiping | obl |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 wealth | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wealth | det |
| 15 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 servants | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 masters | case |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 masters | nmod:poss |
| 18 | masters | master | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wealth | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 things | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 things | det |
| 21 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 things | amod |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 masters | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 house | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 house | det |
| 25 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 things | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | man | most of man's day | now | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme most=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | gossip speech: other | gerund | man not said here | with the servants about the wealth of servants's masters and the wonderful things in the house | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with servant=Co-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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