The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 46
When Jenik heard the wheels of the carriage, he rubbed his watch and wished for a still more beautiful house, four stories high, and hung with gold, silver, and damask; filled with wonderful tables, covered with dishes such as no king had ever eaten before.
Who acts: Jenik · What happens: hear, rub, wish, hang, fill, cover · To what, where: wheels, watch, damask, wonderful tables, dishes
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rubbed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheels | det |
| 5 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 heard | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 carriage | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carriage | det |
| 8 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wheels | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 heard | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 rubbed | nsubj |
| 11 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 watch | nmod:poss |
| 13 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rubbed | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 wished | cc |
| 15 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rubbed | conj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 19 more | advmod |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 beautiful | advmod |
| 20 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wished | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 stories | punct |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 stories | nummod |
| 24 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 high | obl:unmarked |
| 25 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 house | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hung | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hung | cc |
| 28 | hung | hang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rubbed | conj |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 gold | case |
| 30 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hung | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 silver | punct |
| 32 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 gold | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 damask | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 damask | cc |
| 35 | damask | damask | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hung | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 37 filled | punct |
| 37 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 rubbed | conj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 tables | case |
| 39 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 tables | amod |
| 40 | tables | table | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 filled | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 covered | punct |
| 42 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 tables | acl |
| 43 | with | with | ADP | _ | 44 dishes | case |
| 44 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 covered | obl |
| 45 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 48 king | case |
| 46 | as | as | ADP | _ | 45 such | fixed |
| 47 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 48 king | det |
| 48 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 eaten | obl |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 eaten | aux |
| 50 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 51 eaten | advmod |
| 51 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 44 dishes | acl:relcl |
| 52 | before | before | ADV | _ | 51 eaten | advmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | Jenik | the wheels of the carriage | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer wheel=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | Jenik | Jenik's watch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | Jenik not said here | for a beautiful house | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for house=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hang | participle | Jenik not said here | damask | with gold and silver | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | fill | participle | Jenik not said here | with wonderful tables | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with table=Instrument | ||||
| 6 | cover | participle | wonderful tables not said here | with dishes | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with dish=Theme | ||||
| 7 | eat | past · perfect | dishes not said here | ever | such no king; before property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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