The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 82
When they touched the shore the dog repeated his question.
Who acts: animals, dog · What happens: touch, repeat, question · To what, where: shore, question
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 (animals, dog), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 touched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 repeated | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shore | det |
| 5 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 touched | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | nsubj |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 question | nmod:poss |
| 10 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 repeated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | animals = animal | the shore | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme shore=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | repeat | past | the dog | dog's question | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | question | dog | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=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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