The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 49

When she got better, the Lion Fairy told her that if she liked she could build herself a cabin, as she would have to spend her life in that place.

Who acts: queen, Lion Fairy · What happens: get, tell, like, build, have, spend · To what, where: queen, life, place · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen, Lion Fairy), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 got	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 told	advcl
4	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 got	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fairy	det
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fairy	compound
8	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 told	nsubj
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 build	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	14 liked	mark
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 liked	nsubj
14	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 build	advcl
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 build	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 build	aux
17	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	ccomp
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 build	obj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 cabin	det
20	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 build	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 have	punct
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 have	mark
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 have	aux
25	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 build	conj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 spend	mark
27	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 have	xcomp
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 life	nmod:poss
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spend	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 place	case
31	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 place	det
32	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 spend	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past	queen				good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	tell speech: assert	past	the Lion Fairy		queen			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	like a condition, not said to happen	past	queen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
4	build	could	queen	queen				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary cabin=Product
5	have	would	queen					tree rules
6	spend	to-infinitive	queen not said here	queen's life		that place		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Asset

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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