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title: Then Jenik rubbed his watch afresh, and wished that for six miles th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Jenik rubbed his watch afresh, and wished that for six miles the way to the house should be paved with marble. Who acts: Jenik. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Watch, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Watch, sentence 43

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Then Jenik rubbed his watch afresh, and wished that for six miles the way to the house should be paved with marble.

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**Who acts:** Jenik · **What happens:** rub, wish, pave · **To what, where:** watch, way · **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), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Checked tree.** This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (`gutenberg:pg7277:554`): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:8:43
# text = Then Jenik rubbed his watch afresh, and wished that for six miles the way to the house should be paved with marble.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Jenik	Jenik	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	rubbed	rub	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	afresh	afresh	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wished	wish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nummod	_	_
13	miles	mile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	paved	pave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	ccomp	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	marble	marble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rub** | past | Jenik | Jenik's watch |  |  | then | afresh *property* | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 2 | **wish** | past | Jenik *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **pave** | should · passive |  | the way to the house |  |  |  | for six miles; with marble | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with marble=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:** the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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