The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 53

A beautiful house was got ready for her, and Prince Ring had the two oaks planted in the garden just in front of her windows so that she might have the pleasure of seeing them constantly.

Who acts: Prince Ring, Signy, pleasure · What happens: get, have, plant, see · To what, where: beautiful house, two oaks, garden, pleasure, oaks

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince Ring, Signy, pleasure), 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	3 house	det
2	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 house	amod
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	aux:pass
5	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 got	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 her	case
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ready	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
11	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Ring	compound
12	Ring	Ring	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 oaks	det
15	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 oaks	nummod
16	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obj
17	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 oaks	acl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 garden	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 garden	det
20	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 planted	obl
21	just	just	ADV	_	23 front	advmod
22	in	in	ADP	_	23 front	case
23	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 planted	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 windows	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 windows	nmod:poss
26	windows	window	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 front	nmod
27	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	31 have	mark
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 so	fixed
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 have	nsubj
30	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 have	aux
31	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 pleasure	det
33	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 have	obj
34	of	of	SCONJ	_	35 seeing	mark
35	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 pleasure	acl
36	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seeing	obj
37	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	35 seeing	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	get	past · passive		a beautiful house		ready property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
2	have	past	Prince Ring	the two oaks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oak=Patient
3	plant	participle		the two oaks not said here	the garden	in front of Signy's windows	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garden=Destination
4	have	might	Signy	the pleasure			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pleasure=Patient
5	see	gerund	the pleasure not said here	oaks = oak		constantly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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