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title: He rubbed his watch and wished for a carriage ornamented with gold a… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He rubbed his watch and wished for a carriage ornamented with gold and silver, and drawn by six horses, with harness glittering with precious stones. Who acts: father, harness. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ev
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 40

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He rubbed his watch and wished for a carriage ornamented with gold and silver, and drawn by six horses, with harness glittering with precious stones.

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**Who acts:** father, harness · **What happens:** rub, wish, ornament, draw, glitter · **To what, where:** watch, carriage

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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 (father, harness), 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:pg7277:8:40
# text = He rubbed his watch and wished for a carriage ornamented with gold and silver, and drawn by six horses, with harness glittering with precious stones.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	carriage	carriage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	ornamented	ornament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	silver	silver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nummod	_	_
20	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	harness	harness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
24	glittering	glitter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	acl	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | father | father's watch |  |  |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a carriage | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for carriage=Theme |
| 3 | **ornament** | participle |  | a carriage *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold and silver | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | participle | father *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by six horses; with harness | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **glitter** | gerund | harness *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with precious stones | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with stone=Theme |

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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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