The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 57

Then she rubbed her watch, and wished that the sea might be crossed by a bridge, and that a magnificent palace might arise in the middle of the sea.

Who acts: wife, bridge, magnificent palace · What happens: rub, wish, cross, arise · To what, where: watch, sea, middle · 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, bridge, magnificent palace), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 rubbed	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rubbed	nsubj
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 watch	nmod:poss
5	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rubbed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wished	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wished	cc
8	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rubbed	conj
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 crossed	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sea	det
11	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crossed	nsubj:pass
12	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 crossed	aux
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 crossed	aux:pass
14	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 wished	ccomp
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 bridge	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 bridge	det
17	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crossed	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 arise	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 arise	cc
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 arise	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 palace	det
22	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 palace	amod
23	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arise	nsubj
24	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 arise	aux
25	arise	arise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 rubbed	conj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 middle	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 middle	det
28	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arise	obl
29	of	of	ADP	_	31 sea	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 sea	det
31	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 middle	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 rubbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	rub	past	wife	wife's watch		then	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
2	wish	past	wife not said here				vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	cross	might · passive	a bridge	the sea			vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	arise	might	a magnificent palace		the middle of the sea		vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in middle=Location

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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