The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 8
‘My hat full of gold,’ answered the youth, and immediately it was full.
Who acts: hat · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: youth
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 (hat), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hat | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 hat | nmod:poss |
| 3 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hat | amod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 full | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hat | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 hat | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 youth | det |
| 11 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 full | cc |
| 14 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 17 full | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 full | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 answered | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | My hat | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent youth=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | is | past | hat | full, immediately property | tree rules |
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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