The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 74

The Princess recognised him, and guessed why he had come; and she took the watch down to the cellar and locked it in a box.

Who acts: Princess, cat · What happens: recognise, guess, come, take down, lock · To what, where: cat, watch, box · 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 (Princess, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Princess	det
2	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 recognised	nsubj
3	recognised	recognise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 recognised	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 guessed	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 guessed	cc
7	guessed	guess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognised	conj
8	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 come	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 come	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 guessed	ccomp
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 recognised	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 watch	det
17	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obj
18	down	down	ADV	_	15 took	advmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 cellar	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 cellar	det
21	cellar	cellar	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 took	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 locked	cc
23	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 locked	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 box	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 box	det
27	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 locked	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 recognised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recognise	past	the Princess	cat			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	guess	past	the Princess not said here				vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	past · perfect	cat				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	take down	past	Princess	the watch		to the cellar; down property	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme
5	lock	past	Princess not said here	watch	a box		vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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