The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 39
After the first course Jenik prayed his father to invite the King, and his daughter the Princess.
Who acts: Jenik · What happens: pray, invite · To what, where: father, King
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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 course | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 course | amod |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prayed | obl |
| 5 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 prayed | nsubj |
| 6 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 father | nmod:poss |
| 8 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prayed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 invite | mark |
| 10 | invite | invite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 prayed | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 King | det |
| 12 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 invite | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 daughter | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 daughter | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 16 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 prayed | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Princess | det |
| 18 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 daughter | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 prayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray | past | Jenik | Jenik's father | after the first course | Jenik's daughter obl | tree rules | ||
| 2 | invite | to-infinitive | Jenik not said here | the King | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
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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