The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 94
Jenik returned to his parents, and he and his watch, his cat and his dog, lived together happily to the end of their days.
Who acts: Jenik · What happens: return, watch, live together
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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 parents | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 parents | nmod:poss |
| 5 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 returned | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 watch | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watch | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watch | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 watch | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 watch | nmod:poss |
| 11 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cat | punct |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cat | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watch | appos |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dog | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 dog | nmod:poss |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cat | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 returned | conj |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 21 | happily | happily | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 end | det |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 days | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 days | nmod:poss |
| 27 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 end | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Jenik | to Jenik's parents result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to parent=Result | ||||
| 2 | watch | Jenik | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | live together | past | Jenik not said here | to the end of parents's days | happily, together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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