English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 24

And he said to himself: “Well, well, I never was so near my death as I am now;” and then he felt in his pocket, and drew the little box out.

Who acts: Jack · What happens: say, not be, feel, draw out · To what, where: Jack, death, little box · 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 (Jack), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 said	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 death	punct
7	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 death	punct
8	Well	well	INTJ	_	18 death	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Well	punct
10	well	well	INTJ	_	18 death	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 well	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 death	nsubj
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 death	advmod
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 death	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	18 death	advmod
16	near	near	ADP	_	18 death	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 death	nmod:poss
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 am	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 am	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 said	advcl
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 am	advmod
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 felt	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 felt	advmod
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 felt	nsubj
28	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 pocket	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 pocket	nmod:poss
31	pocket	pocket	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 felt	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 drew	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 drew	cc
34	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	conj
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 box	det
36	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 box	amod
37	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 drew	obj
38	out	out	ADP	_	34 drew	compound:prt
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Jack		Jack				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient
2	not is in a quote	past	Jack			my death			tree rules
3	feel	past	Jack				then	in Jack's pocket	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Theme in pocket=Attribute
4	draw out	past	Jack not said here	the little box					vn scribble-25.2-1 «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: «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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