The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 4
When the rejoicings were ended, the second son begged leave of his father to go in his turn to travel and mix with the world.
Who acts: rejoicings · What happens: be, beg, go, travel, mix · To what, where: turn
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 (rejoicings), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 ended | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rejoicings | det |
| 3 | rejoicings | rejoicing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 ended | cop |
| 5 | ended | ended | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 leave | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ended | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | nsubj |
| 10 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 leave | amod |
| 11 | leave | leave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 leave | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 go | mark |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 leave | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 turn | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 turn | nmod:poss |
| 19 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 travel | mark |
| 21 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 go | advcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 mix | cc |
| 23 | mix | mix | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 travel | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 world | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 world | det |
| 26 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 mix | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the rejoicings | ended property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | go | to-infinitive | man's turn | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in turn=Location | |||||
| 4 | travel | to-infinitive | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | mix | infinitive | with the world | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient with world=Co-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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