The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 55

One night she took the watch, rubbed it, and wished for a carriage drawn by four horses; and in this carriage she at once set out for her father’s palace.

Who acts: wife · What happens: take, rub, wish, draw, set out · To what, where: watch, carriage, 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 (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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 night	nummod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obl:unmarked
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 took	nsubj
4	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 watch	det
6	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rubbed	punct
8	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 took	parataxis
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 rubbed	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wished	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 wished	cc
12	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rubbed	conj
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 carriage	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 carriage	det
15	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wished	obl
16	drawn	draw	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 carriage	acl
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 horses	case
18	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 horses	nummod
19	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 drawn	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 set	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 set	cc
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 carriage	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 carriage	det
24	carriage	carriage	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 set	nsubj:pass
26	at	at	SCONJ	_	28 set	mark
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 set	advmod
28	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 took	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 set	compound:prt
30	for	for	ADP	_	34 palace	case
31	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 father	nmod:poss
32	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 palace	nmod:poss
33	’s	's	PART	_	32 father	case
34	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 set	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	wife	the watch		night		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
2	rub	past		watch				vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	wish	past					for a carriage	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for carriage=Theme
4	draw	participle		a carriage not said here			by four horses	vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	set out	participle · passive		wife	this carriage		for wife's father's palace; once property	tree rules

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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