The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 79
Think of his joy as he opened the lid!
Who acts: you, man · What happens: think, open, joy · To what, where: lid
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 (you, 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 | Think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 joy | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 joy | nmod:poss |
| 4 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Think | obl |
| 5 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 opened | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 opened | nsubj |
| 7 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Think | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lid | det |
| 9 | lid | lid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 opened | obj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | imperative | you not said here | of man's joy | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | open | past | man | the lid | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | joy | man | nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=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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