The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 92
Jenik rubbed the watch and wished that the palace, with the Princess and all its inhabitants, should be swallowed up in the sea.
Who acts: Jenik · What happens: rub, wish, swallow up · To what, where: watch, palace, sea
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 (Jenik), 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 | Jenik | Jenik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rubbed | nsubj |
| 2 | rubbed | rub | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 watch | det |
| 4 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rubbed | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wished | cc |
| 6 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rubbed | conj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 palace | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 palace | det |
| 9 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Princess | punct |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 Princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Princess | det |
| 13 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wished | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inhabitants | cc |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 inhabitants | det:predet |
| 16 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 inhabitants | nmod:poss |
| 17 | inhabitants | inhabitant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Princess | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 swallowed | punct |
| 19 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 swallowed | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 swallowed | aux:pass |
| 21 | swallowed | swallow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 Princess | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 swallowed | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 swallowed | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rubbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rub | past | Jenik | the watch | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wish | past | Jenik not said here | the palace | with the Princess and watch's inhabitants | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot palace=Theme | |||
| 3 | swallow up | should · passive | Jenik not said here | the sea | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V» |
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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