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title: He was hungry, and thought it would be delightful to eat in the mead… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was hungry, and thought it would be delightful to eat in the meadow a loaf of new bread and a steak of good beef washed down by a flask of wine, so he scratched the watch, and in an instant it was all before him. Who acts: Jenik, it, proof. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 25

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He was hungry, and thought it would be delightful to eat in the meadow a loaf of new bread and a steak of good beef washed down by a flask of wine, so he scratched the watch, and in an instant it was all before him.

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**Who acts:** Jenik, it, proof · **What happens:** be, think, eat, wash down, scratch · **To what, where:** loaf, meadow, good beef, watch, instant · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, it, proof), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:8:25
# text = He was hungry, and thought it would be delightful to eat in the meadow a loaf of new bread and a steak of good beef washed down by a flask of wine, so he scratched the watch, and in an instant it was all before him.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	cop	_	_
10	delightful	delightful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	meadow	meadow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	loaf	loaf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	steak	steak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	beef	beef	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	washed	wash	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	down	down	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	flask	flask	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	wine	wine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
35	so	so	ADV	RB	_	37	advmod	_	_
36	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
37	scratched	scratch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	49	cc	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	instant	instant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	obl	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	49	nsubj	_	_
46	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	all	all	ADV	RB	_	49	advmod	_	_
48	before	before	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Jenik |  |  |  |  | hungry *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | would | it |  |  |  |  | delightful *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **eat** | to-infinitive |  | a loaf of new bread and a steak of good beef |  | the meadow |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient |
| 5 | **wash down** | participle |  | good beef *not said here* |  |  |  | by a flask of wine | vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **scratch** | past | Jenik | the watch |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | proof |  |  | a instant | before serpent | all *property* | tree rules |

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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.

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**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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