English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 13

The poor lad had not gone far, when his father called him back; then the old man drew out of his pocket a golden snuff-box, and said to him: “Here, take this little box, and put it in your pocket, and be sure not to open it till you are near your death.”

Who acts: poor lad, father, old man, lad · What happens: not go, call back, draw out, say, take, put · To what, where: lad, pocket, little box, box, death · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden 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 (poor lad, father, old man, lad), 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 lad	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lad	amod
3	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gone	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 gone	advmod
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 gone	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 called	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 called	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 father	nmod:poss
11	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 called	nsubj
12	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	parataxis
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 called	obj
14	back	back	ADV	_	12 called	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 drew	punct
16	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 drew	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
18	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 man	amod
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drew	nsubj
20	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gone	parataxis
21	out	out	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 pocket	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 pocket	nmod:poss
24	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drew	obl
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 box	det
26	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 box	amod
27	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 box	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 snuff	punct
29	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 drew	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 said	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 said	cc
32	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 drew	conj
33	to	to	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 said	obl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	37 Here	punct
36	“	"	PUNCT	_	37 Here	punct
37	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	32 said	ccomp
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 take	punct
39	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	32 said	parataxis
40	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 box	det
41	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 box	amod
42	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 take	obj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 put	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 put	cc
45	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	39 take	conj
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 put	obj
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 pocket	case
48	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 pocket	nmod:poss
49	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 put	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 sure	punct
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 sure	cc
52	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	53 sure	cop
53	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 take	advcl
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 open	advmod
55	to	to	PART	_	56 open	mark
56	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 sure	ccomp
57	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 open	obj
58	till	till	SCONJ	_	63 death	mark
59	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	63 death	nsubj
60	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	63 death	cop
61	near	near	ADP	_	63 death	case
62	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	63 death	nmod:poss
63	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 open	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct
65	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	the poor lad					far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	call back speech: assert	past	lad's father		lad				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	draw out	past	the old man	lad's pocket			then		vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent box=Beneficiary pocket=Result
4	say speech: assert	past	the old man not said here		lad				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	take in a quote	infinitive		this little box					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
6	put in a quote	infinitive		box		your pocket			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in pocket=Destination
7	is in a quote	infinitive						sure property	tree rules
8	not open in a quote	to-infinitive		box					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
9	is in a quote	present	lad			your death			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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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