The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 76

He made friends with one of the maids, who told him the history of the snuff-box, and he coaxed her to let him see it.

Who acts: man, maids · What happens: make, tell, coax, let, see · To what, where: friends, history, man, gardener · 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, maids), 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	2 made	nsubj
2	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 made	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 one	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 made	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 maids	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 maids	det
8	maids	maid	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 one	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 told	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 told	nsubj
11	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 maids	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 told	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 history	det
14	history	history	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 told	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	19 box	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 box	det
17	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 box	compound
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 snuff	punct
19	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 history	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 coaxed	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 coaxed	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 coaxed	nsubj
23	coaxed	coax	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 made	conj
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 coaxed	obj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 let	mark
26	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 coaxed	advcl
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 let	obj
28	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 let	xcomp
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 see	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	man	friends		with one of the maids	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product
2	tell speech: assert	past	the maids	the history of the snuff box	man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient history=Topic
3	coax	past	man	gardener			vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
4	let	to-infinitive	man not said here	man			tree rules
5	see	infinitive	man not said here	history			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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