The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 23, sentence 26

Now the Fairy of the Fountain was the godmother of the princess Nera, to whom the prince had been betrothed before the picture of Desiree had made him faithless.

Who acts: Fairy, picture · What happens: be, betroth, make · To what, where: godmother, prince

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, picture), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 godmother	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fairy	det
3	Fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 godmother	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 Fountain	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fountain	det
6	Fountain	Fountain	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Fairy	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 godmother	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 godmother	det
9	godmother	godmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 princess	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 princess	det
12	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 godmother	nmod
13	Nera	Nera	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 princess	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 betrothed	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 whom	case
16	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 betrothed	obl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 prince	det
18	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 betrothed	nsubj:pass
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 betrothed	aux
20	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	21 betrothed	aux:pass
21	betrothed	betroth	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 godmother	conj
22	before	before	ADP	_	24 picture	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 picture	det
24	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 betrothed	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Desiree	case
26	Desiree	Desiree	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 made	obl
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 made	aux
28	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 picture	acl:relcl
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 made	obj
30	faithless	faithless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 made	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 godmother	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Fairy of the Fountain	the godmother		now	of the princess	tree rules
2	betroth	past · perfect · passive		the prince	the godmother	before the picture		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to whom=Recipient
3	make	past · perfect	the picture not said here	prince			of Desiree; faithless property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/23/26/