The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 2, sentence 84

But the king was still much troubled, fearing the loss of Sipao, for the mirror had magic powers, so that he who owned it had but to ask and his wish would be fulfilled; to it Insato owed all that he possessed.

Who acts: king, mirror, Insato · What happens: be, fear, have, own, ask, fulfil · To what, where: loss, magic powers, wish, all

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, mirror, Insato), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 troubled	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 king	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 troubled	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 troubled	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 troubled	advmod
7	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fearing	punct
9	fearing	fear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 troubled	advcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 loss	det
11	loss	loss	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fearing	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 Sipao	case
13	Sipao	Sipao	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 loss	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 had	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mirror	det
17	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	nsubj
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 troubled	parataxis
19	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 powers	amod
20	powers	power	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 owned	punct
22	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	26 owned	mark
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 so	fixed
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 owned	nsubj
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 owned	nsubj
26	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 had	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 had	nsubj
28	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 owned	ccomp
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 ask	cc
30	to	to	PART	_	31 ask	mark
31	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 had	conj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fulfilled	cc
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 wish	nmod:poss
34	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fulfilled	nsubj:pass
35	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 fulfilled	aux
36	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 fulfilled	aux:pass
37	fulfilled	fulfil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 ask	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 owed	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 it	case
40	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 owed	obl
41	Insato	Insato	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 owed	nsubj
42	owed	owe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 troubled	conj
43	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	42 owed	obl
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 possessed	mark
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 possessed	nsubj
46	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 owed	advcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 troubled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the king			troubled property	tree rules
2	fear	gerund	the king not said here	the loss of Sipao			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer loss=Stimulus
3	have	past	the mirror	magic powers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient
4	own	past	King				tree rules
5	have	past	Mirror				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	Mirror not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	fulfil	would · passive		King's wish			tree rules
8	owe	past	Insato	all	wish		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to it=Goal
9	possess	past	King				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
10	wish		King				nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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