The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 32

Jenik went to his old place near the stove, and dirtied himself in the ashes without anybody minding.

Who acts: Jenik · What happens: go, dirty · To what, where: old place, Jenik, ashes

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), 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 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 place	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 place	nmod:poss
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 place	amod
6	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	near	near	ADP	_	9 stove	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stove	det
9	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 place	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dirtied	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dirtied	cc
12	dirtied	dirty	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 went	conj
13	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 dirtied	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 ashes	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 ashes	det
16	ashes	ash	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 dirtied	obl
17	without	without	ADP	_	19 minding	case
18	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 minding	compound
19	minding	minding	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dirtied	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Jenik			Jenik's old place near the stove			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial_Location
2	dirty	past	Jenik not said here	Jenik		the ashes		without anybody minding	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=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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