The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 27
Evening soon came, and Jenik rubbed his watch, and thought it would be very pleasant to have a room with a comfortable bed and a good supper.
Who acts: Jenik, it · What happens: even, come, rub, think, be, have · To what, where: watch, room · 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), 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 | Evening | even | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | obl:unmarked |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rubbed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 rubbed | cc |
| 6 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbed | nsubj |
| 7 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 watch | nmod:poss |
| 9 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 thought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 thought | cc |
| 12 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pleasant | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 pleasant | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pleasant | cop |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 pleasant | advmod |
| 17 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 thought | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 have | mark |
| 19 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pleasant | csubj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 room | det |
| 21 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 have | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 bed | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 bed | det |
| 24 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 bed | amod |
| 25 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 room | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 supper | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 supper | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 supper | amod |
| 29 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bed | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | even | gerund | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | come | past | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | rub | past | Jenik | Jenik's watch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is | would | it | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | have | to-infinitive | a room | with a comfortable bed and a good supper | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=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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