The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 44

A husband was found for me, and on my wedding-day my mother placed her crown on my head and told me that as long as I wore it I should likewise be queen.

Who acts: mother, I · What happens: find, place, tell, wear, be, crown · To what, where: husband, crown, head, me, queen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, I), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 husband	det
2	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	aux:pass
4	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 me	case
6	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 found	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 placed	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 placed	cc
9	on	on	ADP	_	13 day	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 day	nmod:poss
11	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 day	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 wedding	punct
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
14	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	nsubj
16	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 found	parataxis
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 crown	nmod:poss
18	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obj
19	on	on	ADP	_	21 head	case
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 head	nmod:poss
21	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 placed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 told	cc
23	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 placed	conj
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 told	iobj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 long	nsubj
26	as	as	ADV	_	27 long	advmod
27	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 told	advmod
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 wore	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 wore	nsubj
30	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 long	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 wore	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 queen	nsubj
33	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 queen	aux
34	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	36 queen	advmod
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 queen	cop
36	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 told	ccomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past · passive		a husband				for me	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for i=Beneficiary
2	place	past	my mother	mother's crown		my head	day		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent crown=Theme on head=Destination
3	tell speech: assert	past	my mother not said here		me			long property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	wear	past	I	crown					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	is a	should	I	queen				likewise property	tree rules
6	crown		mother						nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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