The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 91
The fish executed his commission, and they brought the treasure back to their master.
Who acts: fish, sons · What happens: execute, bring back · To what, where: commission, treasure, master
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 (fish, sons), 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 fish | det |
| 2 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 executed | nsubj |
| 3 | executed | execute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 commission | nmod:poss |
| 5 | commission | commission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 executed | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brought | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brought | cc |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 executed | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 treasure | det |
| 11 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obj |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 9 brought | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brought | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 executed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | execute | past | the fish | cat's commission | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent commission=Patient | ||||
| 2 | bring back | past | sons = son | the treasure | sons's master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme to master=Destination |
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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