The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 24
Jenik became the master of the watch, and the moment he got out he wished to put its virtues to the proof.
Who acts: Jenik, moment · What happens: become, get out, wish, put · To what, where: master, moment, virtues
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 (Jenik, moment), 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 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 became | nsubj |
| 2 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 master | det |
| 4 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 became | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 watch | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 watch | det |
| 7 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 master | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wished | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 wished | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 moment | det |
| 11 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wished | nsubj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 got | nsubj |
| 13 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 moment | acl:relcl |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 got | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 wished | nsubj |
| 16 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 became | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 put | mark |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 wished | xcomp |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 20 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 put | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 proof | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 proof | det |
| 23 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | Jenik | the master of the watch | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | get out | past | Jenik | the moment not said here | out property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | wish | past | the moment | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | the moment not said here | watch's virtues | to the proof | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent virtue=Goal |
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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