The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 25

'Before he can marry the princess he must build me a palace of ice, which can be warmed with fires, and wherein the rarest singing- birds can live!'

Who acts: king, fires, rarest singing birds · What happens: marry, build, warm, live · To what, where: princess, palace, me, ice

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, fires, rarest singing birds), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
2	Before	before	SCONJ	_	5 marry	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 marry	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 marry	aux
5	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 princess	det
7	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 marry	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 build	nsubj
9	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 build	aux
10	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 princess	acl:relcl
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 build	obj
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 palace	det
13	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 build	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 ice	case
15	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 palace	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 warmed	punct
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 warmed	nsubj:pass
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 warmed	aux
19	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	20 warmed	aux:pass
20	warmed	warm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 ice	acl:relcl
21	with	with	ADP	_	22 fires	case
22	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 warmed	obl:agent
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 live	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 live	cc
25	wherein	wherein	ADV	PronType=Int	32 live	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 birds	det
27	rarest	rare	ADJ	Degree=Sup	30 birds	amod
28	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 birds	compound
29	-	-	PUNCT	_	28 singing	punct
30	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 live	nsubj
31	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 live	aux
32	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 marry	conj
33	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct
34	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 marry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	marry	can	king	the princess			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	build	must	king	a palace of ice	me		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary palace=Product
3	warm	can · passive	fires	ice			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient
4	live	can	the rarest singing birds			wherein 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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