The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 80

The dog laid this to heart and said nothing; but when they approached the shore he could not help asking, ‘Have you got the watch?’

Who acts: dog, animals, you · What happens: lay, say, approach, not help, ask, get · To what, where: this, nothing, shore, watch · 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 (dog, animals, you), 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 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	nsubj
3	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 laid	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 heart	mark
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 laid	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	conj
9	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	8 said	obj
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 help	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 help	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 approached	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 approached	nsubj
14	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 help	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shore	det
16	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 approached	obj
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 help	aux
19	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	20 help	advmod
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 laid	advcl
21	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 help	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
23	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 got	punct
24	Have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 got	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laid	parataxis
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 watch	det
28	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 got	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 laid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	lay	past	the dog	this	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	the dog not said here	nothing	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
3	approach	past	animals = animal	the shore	vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Theme
4	not help	could	dog		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	ask speech: ask not said to happen	gerund	dog not said here		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	get	present	you	the watch	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer watch=Stimulus

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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