The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 62
Nothing remained to him but the cat and dog whose lives he had once saved.
Who acts: Nothing, cat · What happens: remain, save · To what, where: Jenik
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 (Nothing, cat), 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 | Nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 remained | obl |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 saved | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saved | nsubj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dog | cc |
| 9 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cat | conj |
| 10 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 11 lives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dog | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saved | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saved | aux |
| 14 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 15 saved | advmod |
| 15 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 remained | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Nothing | Jenik | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | save | past · perfect | the cat and dog | once property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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