The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 90
‘Granted,’ replied the cat; ‘but on condition that you find our watch.’
Who acts: you · What happens: grant, reply, find · To what, where: cat, condition, watch
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Granted | punct |
| 2 | Granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 replied | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Granted | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 condition | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 condition | cc |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 condition | case |
| 12 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obl |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 find | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 find | nsubj |
| 15 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 condition | advcl |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 watch | nmod:poss |
| 17 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 find | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 condition | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 condition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | participle | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the cat | condition | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cat=Topic | ||||
| 3 | find | present | you | our watch | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Topic |
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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