The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 30
Then he set forth for his father’s house, his mind dwelling on the feast that would be awaiting him.
Who acts: Jenik, mind, feast · What happens: set, dwell, await, mind · To what, where: feast, Jenik
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, mind, feast), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 father | case |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 set | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mind | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mind | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | appos |
| 13 | dwelling | dwell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 mind | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 feast | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 dwelling | obl |
| 17 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 awaiting | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 awaiting | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 awaiting | aux |
| 20 | awaiting | await | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 feast | acl:relcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 awaiting | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Jenik | then | for Jenik's father's house; forth property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for house=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | dwell | gerund | Jenik's mind not said here | the feast | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on feast=Location | ||||
| 3 | await | would · progressive | the feast | Jenik | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | mind | Jenik | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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