The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 53
She inquired how he managed to build palaces and to get so many precious things.
Who acts: wife, Jenik · What happens: inquire, manage, build, get · To what, where: palaces, many precious things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (wife, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 inquired | nsubj |
| 2 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 managed | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 managed | nsubj |
| 5 | managed | manage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 build | mark |
| 7 | build | build | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 managed | xcomp |
| 8 | palaces | palace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 build | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 get | mark |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 build | conj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 things | amod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 get | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inquire speech: other | past | wife | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | manage | past | Jenik | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | build | to-infinitive | Jenik not said here | palaces | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset palace=Product | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Jenik not said here | many precious things | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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