The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 58

Maurice was well fitted to be their king, if they wanted one that could make them dance; and he surely would drink, barring the salt water, with any fish of them all.

Who acts: king, one, Maurice · What happens: fit, be, want, make, dance, drink · To what, where: Maurice, king, salt water

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one, Maurice), 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	Maurice	Maurice	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fitted	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fitted	aux:pass
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 fitted	advmod
4	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	8 king	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 king	cop
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 king	nmod:poss
8	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fitted	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 wanted	punct
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 wanted	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wanted	nsubj
12	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fitted	conj
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 make	nsubj
14	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 make	nsubj
15	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 make	aux
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wanted	ccomp
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 make	obj
18	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	xcomp
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 drink	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 drink	cc
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 drink	nsubj
22	surely	surely	ADV	_	24 drink	advmod
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 drink	aux
24	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 fitted	parataxis
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 barring	punct
26	barring	bar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 drink	advcl
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
28	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 water	compound
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 barring	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 fish	punct
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 fish	case
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	33 fish	det
33	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 drink	conj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 them	case
35	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 fish	nmod
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 them	nmod:unmarked
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 fitted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fit	past · passive		Maurice	well property	vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	is a	to-infinitive		king's king		tree rules
3	want a condition, not said to happen	past	king			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	make	could	one	king		tree rules
5	dance	infinitive	king not said here			vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	drink	would	Maurice		surely property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	bar	gerund	Maurice not said here	the salt water		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer water=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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