The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 8, sentence 53

After that he married the princess, who was the best wife in all the islands of the West.

Who acts: Ian, princess · What happens: marry, be · To what, where: princess, best wife, islands

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ian, princess), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 that	case
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 married	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 married	nsubj
4	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 princess	det
6	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 married	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wife	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wife	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 wife	cop
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wife	det
11	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 wife	amod
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 princess	nmod
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 islands	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 islands	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 islands	det
16	islands	island	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wife	nmod
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 West	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 West	det
19	West	West	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 islands	nmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 married	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	marry	past	Ian	the princess			after that		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Patient
2	is a	past	the princess	the best wife		all islands of the West			tree rules

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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