The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 54

He told her all about the watch, and she never rested till she had stolen the precious talisman.

Who acts: Jenik, wife · What happens: tell, not rest, steal · To what, where: wife, precious talisman · 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 (Jenik, wife), 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 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 told	iobj
4	all	all	ADV	_	7 watch	advmod
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 watch	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 watch	det
7	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 rested	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 rested	cc
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 rested	nsubj
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 rested	advmod
12	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 told	conj
13	till	till	SCONJ	_	16 stolen	mark
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 stolen	nsubj
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 stolen	aux
16	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 rested	ccomp
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 talisman	det
18	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 talisman	amod
19	talisman	talisman	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stolen	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	Jenik		wife	about the watch	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent she=Recipient about watch=Topic
2	not rest	past	wife				tree rules
3	steal	past · perfect	wife	the precious talisman			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location talisman=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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