The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 138
Nothing in the world could tear him from his twelve enchantresses.
Who acts: Nothing · What happens: tear · To what, where: Prince
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 (Nothing), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 6 tear | nsubj |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 world | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 world | det |
| 4 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Nothing | nmod |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 tear | aux |
| 6 | tear | tear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 tear | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 enchantresses | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 enchantresses | nmod:poss |
| 10 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 enchantresses | nummod |
| 11 | enchantresses | enchantress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 tear | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tear | could | Nothing | Prince | from Prince's twelve enchantresses | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient from enchantress=Co-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 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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