The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 21
The king will ask what you would like in return, and be sure you beg for the watch which hangs on the wall.
Who acts: king, you, watch · What happens: ask, like, be, beg, hang · To what, where: return, wall · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (king, you, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 like | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 like | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 like | aux |
| 8 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 return | case |
| 10 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 like | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 sure | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 sure | cc |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sure | cop |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 ask | conj |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 beg | nsubj |
| 16 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 watch | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 watch | det |
| 19 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beg | obl |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 hangs | nsubj |
| 21 | hangs | hang | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 watch | acl:relcl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 wall | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wall | det |
| 24 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hangs | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | like | would | you | return | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | infinitive | the king not said here | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | present | you | for the watch | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for watch=Topic | ||||
| 5 | hang | present | the watch | the wall | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on wall=Location |
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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