The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 12
The father saw him depart with joy, glad to get rid of him, and gave him a handsome sum of money for his needs.
Who acts: father, youth · What happens: see, depart, get, give, sum, need · To what, where: youth, handsome sum, money
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, youth), 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 | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 saw | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 joy | case |
| 7 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 depart | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 glad | punct |
| 9 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 joy | amod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 glad | advcl |
| 12 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 get | xcomp |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 him | case |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rid | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 gave | cc |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sum | det |
| 20 | handsome | handsome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sum | amod |
| 21 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 money | case |
| 23 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sum | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 needs | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 needs | nmod:poss |
| 26 | needs | need | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 gave | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the father | youth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | depart | infinitive | youth not said here | with joy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | youth not said here | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | give | past | the father not said here | a handsome sum of money | youth | for father's needs | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sum=Theme for need=Asset | ||
| 5 | sum | money | nom sum «possession transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | need | father | nom need «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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