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 | to whom | where | when | 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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