The Green Fairy Book, The Snuff-box, sentence 80
When it asked him, as of yore, ‘What do you want?’ he replied: ‘What do I want?
Who acts: lid, you, man, I · What happens: ask, want, reply · To what, where: man · 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 (lid, you, man, I), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 replied | advcl |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 yore | punct |
| 6 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 8 yore | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 as | fixed |
| 8 | yore | yore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 want | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 want | punct |
| 20 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 want | punct |
| 21 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 want | obj |
| 22 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 want | aux |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 want | nsubj |
| 24 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 replied | ccomp |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | lid | man | as yore | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | want | present · do-support | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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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