The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 9

With the treasure he possessed he was able to buy a great herd of reindeer; and he soon married a rich wife, whose parents would not have him as a son-in-law when he was poor, and the two lived happy for ever after.

Who acts: Andras, parents, two · What happens: possess, be, buy, marry, not have, live · To what, where: great herd, rich wife, Andras

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Andras, parents, two), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 treasure	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 treasure	det
3	treasure	treasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 possessed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 possessed	nsubj
5	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 able	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 able	cop
8	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 possessed	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 buy	mark
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 able	xcomp
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 herd	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 herd	amod
13	herd	herd	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buy	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 reindeer	case
15	reindeer	reindeer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 herd	nmod
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 married	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 married	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 married	nsubj
19	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 married	advmod
20	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 possessed	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 wife	det
22	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 wife	amod
23	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 married	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 have	punct
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	26 parents	nmod:poss
26	parents	parent	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 have	nsubj
27	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 have	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 have	advmod
29	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 wife	parataxis
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 have	obj
31	as	as	ADP	_	37 law	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 son	det
33	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 law	nsubj
34	-	-	PUNCT	_	37 law	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 law	case
36	-	-	PUNCT	_	35 in	punct
37	law	law	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 married	obl
38	when	when	SCONJ	_	41 poor	mark
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 poor	nsubj
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 poor	cop
41	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 married	advcl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 lived	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 lived	cc
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 two	det
45	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	46 lived	nsubj
46	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 possessed	conj
47	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 lived	xcomp
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 ever	case
49	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	46 lived	obl
50	after	after	ADV	_	46 lived	advmod
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 possessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	possess	past	Andras		with the treasure	vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is	past	Andras		able property	tree rules
3	buy	to-infinitive	Andras not said here	a great herd of reindeer		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme
4	marry	past	Andras	a rich wife	as law; soon property	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
5	not have	would	parents	Andras		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
6	is	past	Andras		poor property	tree rules
7	live	past	the two		after, happy property	vn exist-47.1-1 «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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