The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 59
The Princess entered the house, rubbed her watch, and in an instant the bridge was gone.
Who acts: Princess, bridge · What happens: enter, rub, be · To what, where: house, watch, instant
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 (Princess, bridge), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Princess | det |
| 2 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rubbed | punct |
| 7 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 entered | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 watch | nmod:poss |
| 9 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rubbed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gone | cc |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 instant | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 instant | det |
| 14 | instant | instant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gone | obl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bridge | det |
| 16 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | the Princess | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme house=Destination | ||||
| 2 | rub | past | the Princess not said here | Princess's watch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the bridge | a instant | gone 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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