The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 33
The third day, feeling rather dull, he thought it would be nice to see a three-story house filled with beautiful furniture, and with vessels of silver and gold.
Who acts: third day, Jenik, it · What happens: feel, think, be, see, fill · To what, where: story house · 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 (third day, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 day | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 thought | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 feeling | punct |
| 5 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 day | acl |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 dull | advmod |
| 7 | dull | dull | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feeling | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thought | nsubj |
| 10 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nice | nsubj |
| 12 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 nice | aux |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nice | cop |
| 14 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 see | mark |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 nice | csubj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 18 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 story | nummod |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 three | punct |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 house | compound |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 22 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 house | acl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 furniture | case |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 furniture | amod |
| 25 | furniture | furniture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 filled | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 vessels | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 vessels | cc |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 vessels | case |
| 29 | vessels | vessel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 silver | case |
| 31 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 vessels | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 gold | cc |
| 33 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 silver | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | the third day not said here | dull property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Jenik | day | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | would | it | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | a story house | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer house=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | fill | participle | a story house not said here | with beautiful furniture | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with furniture=Instrument |
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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