The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 13
Once, as he was making one of his journeys, Jenik chanced to cross a meadow where some shepherds were just about to kill a dog.
Who acts: father, Jenik, shepherds · What happens: make, chance, cross, kill, journey · To what, where: one, meadow, dog
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, Jenik, shepherds), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 chanced | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Once | punct |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 making | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 making | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 making | aux |
| 6 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 chanced | advcl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 making | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 journeys | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 journeys | nmod:poss |
| 10 | journeys | journey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 one | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 making | punct |
| 12 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 chanced | nsubj |
| 13 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 cross | mark |
| 15 | cross | cross | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 chanced | xcomp |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 meadow | det |
| 17 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cross | obj |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 kill | advmod |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 shepherds | det |
| 20 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kill | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 kill | aux |
| 22 | just | just | ADV | _ | 23 about | advmod |
| 23 | about | about | ADV | _ | 25 kill | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 kill | mark |
| 25 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 meadow | acl:relcl |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 dog | det |
| 27 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 kill | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · progressive | father | one of father's journeys | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Product | ||||
| 2 | chance | past | Jenik | once property | vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | cross | to-infinitive | Jenik not said here | a meadow | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meadow=Patient | ||||
| 4 | kill | past | some shepherds | a dog | about property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme | |||
| 5 | journey | father | nom journey «act 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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