The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 29, sentence 4

Now the Lion Fairy knew beforehand of his expected presence in her dominions, and she ordered a palace of crystal to be built in the middle of the lake of quicksilver; and in order to make it more difficult of approach she let it float whither it would.

Who acts: Lion Fairy, wife, palace · What happens: know, expect, order, build, make, let · To what, where: palace

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion Fairy, wife, palace), 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	5 knew	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fairy	det
3	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Fairy	compound
4	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 knew	nsubj
5	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	beforehand	beforehand	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	10 presence	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	6 beforehand	fixed
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 presence	nmod:poss
9	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 presence	amod
10	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knew	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 dominions	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 dominions	nmod:poss
13	dominions	dominion	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 presence	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ordered	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ordered	cc
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 ordered	nsubj
17	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knew	parataxis
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 palace	det
19	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ordered	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 crystal	case
21	crystal	crystal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 palace	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	24 built	mark
23	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 built	aux:pass
24	built	build	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 crystal	acl
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 middle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 middle	det
27	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 built	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 lake	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lake	det
30	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 middle	nmod
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 quicksilver	case
32	quicksilver	quicksilver	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 lake	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 make	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
35	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	38 make	mark
36	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 in	fixed
37	to	to	PART	_	38 make	mark
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 knew	conj
39	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 make	obj
40	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	41 difficult	advmod
41	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 make	xcomp
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 approach	case
43	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 difficult	obl
44	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 let	nsubj
45	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 approach	acl:relcl
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 let	obj
47	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 let	xcomp
48	whither	whither	ADV	PronType=Int	50 would	advmod
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 would	nsubj
50	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 float	advcl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 knew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	know	past	the Lion Fairy		now	beforehand Fairy's expected presence in wife's dominions	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	expect	participle					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	order	past	wife	a palace of crystal			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent palace=Theme
4	build	to-infinitive · passive	wife not said here			in the middle of the lake of quicksilver	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: in middle=Attribute
5	make	to-infinitive	the Lion Fairy not said here	palace		difficult property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
6	let	past	wife	palace			tree rules
7	float	infinitive	palace not said here				vn run-51.3.2-2 «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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