The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 52
Now Jenik was not a very clever man, and at the end of a very short time he began to bore his wife.
Who acts: Jenik · What happens: not be, begin, bore · To what, where: clever man, end, short time, wife
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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 man | advmod |
| 2 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 man | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 man | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 clever | advmod |
| 7 | clever | clever | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 end | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 end | cc |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 end | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 end | det |
| 13 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 time | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 time | det |
| 16 | very | very | ADV | _ | 17 short | advmod |
| 17 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 time | amod |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 end | nmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 began | nsubj |
| 20 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 time | acl:relcl |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 bore | mark |
| 22 | bore | bore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 began | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 wife | nmod:poss |
| 24 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bore | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | past | Jenik | a clever man | at the end of a short time; now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | begin | past | Jenik | a short time not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | bore | to-infinitive | Jenik not said here | Jenik's wife | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus wife=Experiencer |
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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