The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 68
On hearing this, Jenik at once concluded that this must be the hiding-place of his wife.
Who acts: this · What happens: hear, conclude, be · To what, where: this, hiding place
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 (this), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 concluded | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 concluded | obl |
| 8 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 place | mark |
| 10 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 place | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 place | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 14 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 hiding | punct |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 concluded | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wife | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 wife | nmod:poss |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 place | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 concluded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | conclude | past | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | is a | must | this | the hiding place | of cat's wife | 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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