The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 78
The following night, when everyone was fast asleep, he crept in and took the snuff-box.
Who acts: everyone, man · What happens: follow, be, creep in, take · To what, where: snuff box
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 (everyone, 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 night | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 night | amod |
| 3 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 crept | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asleep | punct |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 asleep | mark |
| 6 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 asleep | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asleep | cop |
| 8 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 asleep | advmod |
| 9 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 night | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 night | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 crept | nsubj |
| 12 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 crept | advmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 took | cc |
| 15 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 crept | conj |
| 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 | 15 took | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 crept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | past | everyone | asleep, fast property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | creep in | past | man | night | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | past | man not said here | the snuff box | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=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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