The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 25

He was hungry, and thought it would be delightful to eat in the meadow a loaf of new bread and a steak of good beef washed down by a flask of wine, so he scratched the watch, and in an instant it was all before him.

Who acts: Jenik, it, proof · What happens: be, think, eat, wash down, scratch · To what, where: loaf, meadow, good beef, watch, instant · 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 (Jenik, it, proof), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thought	cc
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 delightful	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 delightful	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 delightful	cop
10	delightful	delightful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thought	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 eat	mark
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 delightful	xcomp
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 meadow	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 meadow	det
15	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 loaf	det
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eat	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 bread	case
19	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 bread	amod
20	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 loaf	nmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 steak	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 steak	det
23	steak	steak	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bread	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 beef	case
25	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 beef	amod
26	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 steak	nmod
27	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 beef	acl
28	down	down	ADP	_	27 washed	compound:prt
29	by	by	ADP	_	31 flask	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 flask	det
31	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 washed	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 wine	case
33	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flask	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 scratched	punct
35	so	so	ADV	_	37 scratched	advmod
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 scratched	nsubj
37	scratched	scratch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thought	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 watch	det
39	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 scratched	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 him	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 him	cc
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 instant	case
43	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 instant	det
44	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 him	obl
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 him	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 him	cop
47	all	all	ADV	_	49 him	advmod
48	before	before	ADP	_	49 him	case
49	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 scratched	conj
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Jenik				hungry property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	past						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	it				delightful property	tree rules
4	eat	to-infinitive		a loaf of new bread and a steak of good beef	the meadow			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient
5	wash down	participle		good beef not said here			by a flask of wine	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	scratch	past	Jenik	the watch				vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
7	is	past	proof		a instant	before serpent	all property	tree rules

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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