The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 2
When they grew up, he sent the eldest to travel and see the world, and three years passed before his family saw him again.
Who acts: sons, man, three years · What happens: grow up, send, travel, see, pass · To what, where: eldest, world, three years, family, man
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 (sons, man, three years), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 grew | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 grew | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sent | nsubj |
| 7 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eldest | det |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 sent | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 travel | mark |
| 11 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sent | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 see | cc |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 travel | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 world | det |
| 15 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 see | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 saw | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 saw | cc |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 years | nummod |
| 19 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 saw | nsubj |
| 20 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 years | acl |
| 21 | before | before | ADP | _ | 23 family | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 family | nmod:poss |
| 23 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 passed | obl |
| 24 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sent | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 saw | obj |
| 26 | again | again | ADV | _ | 24 saw | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow up | past | sons = son | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | send | past | man | the eldest | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eld=Theme | ||||
| 3 | travel | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | infinitive | man not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pass | participle | three years not said here | man's family | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before family=Location | ||||
| 6 | see | past | three years | man | again | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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