The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 100

But he was on the watch for trickery, and examined it carefully, and saw that it had no power to heal.

Who acts: man, watch · What happens: be, examine, see, have, heal · To what, where: watch, trickery, power · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, watch), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 watch	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watch	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 watch	cop
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 watch	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watch	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 examined	nsubj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 trickery	case
8	trickery	trickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 watch	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 examined	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 examined	cc
11	examined	examine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 examined	obj
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	11 examined	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 saw	cc
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 examined	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 had	mark
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 had	nsubj
19	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	ccomp
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 power	det
21	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 had	obj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 heal	mark
23	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 power	acl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 examined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	man		the watch	for trickery	tree rules
2	examine	past	the watch	trickery		carefully property	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	see	past	the watch not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
4	have	past	watch	no power			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
5	heal	to-infinitive	watch not said here	no power not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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