The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 40
He rubbed his watch and wished for a carriage ornamented with gold and silver, and drawn by six horses, with harness glittering with precious stones.
Who acts: father, harness · What happens: rub, wish, ornament, draw, glitter · To what, where: watch, carriage
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 (father, harness), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 watch | nmod:poss |
| 4 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rubbed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wished | cc |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rubbed | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 carriage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 carriage | det |
| 9 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | obl |
| 10 | ornamented | ornament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 carriage | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 gold | case |
| 12 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 ornamented | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 silver | cc |
| 14 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gold | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 drawn | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 drawn | cc |
| 17 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 rubbed | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 horses | case |
| 19 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 horses | nummod |
| 20 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 drawn | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 harness | punct |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 harness | case |
| 23 | harness | harness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 drawn | obl |
| 24 | glittering | glitter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 harness | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 stones | case |
| 26 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 stones | amod |
| 27 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 glittering | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | father | father's watch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | father not said here | for a carriage | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for carriage=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ornament | participle | a carriage not said here | with gold and silver | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | draw | participle | father not said here | by six horses; with harness | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | glitter | gerund | harness not said here | with precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=Theme |
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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