The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 13

‘The maiden who can work such wonders is fitted to be the wife of the greatest chief,’ he said, and so he married her, and took her with him across the sea to his own home, where they lived happily for ever after.

Who acts: king, wonders · What happens: work, fit, be, say, marry, take · To what, where: such wonders, maiden, wife, chief, sea · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, wonders), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 fitted	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 maiden	det
3	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fitted	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 work	nsubj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 maiden	ccomp
7	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wonders	amod
8	wonders	wonder	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 work	obj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 fitted	aux:pass
10	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 said	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	14 wife	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 wife	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wife	det
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 fitted	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	18 chief	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 chief	det
17	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 chief	amod
18	chief	chief	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wife	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fitted	punct
20	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 fitted	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 said	nsubj
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 married	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 married	cc
25	so	so	ADV	_	27 married	advmod
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 married	nsubj
27	married	marry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 married	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 took	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 took	cc
31	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	obj
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 him	case
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 took	obl
35	across	across	ADP	_	37 sea	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 sea	det
37	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 home	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 home	nmod:poss
40	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 home	amod
41	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 took	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 lived	punct
43	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	45 lived	advmod
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 lived	nsubj
45	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 took	conj
46	happily	happily	ADV	_	45 lived	advmod
47	for	for	ADP	_	48 ever	case
48	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	45 lived	obl
49	after	after	ADV	_	45 lived	advmod
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	work	can		such wonders			vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent wonder=Material
2	fit	present · passive		the maiden			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	is a	to-infinitive		the wife		of the greatest chief	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	king				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	marry	past	king	chief			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
6	take	past	king not said here	chief	the sea	with king; to king's own home	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to home=Destination
7	live	past	wonders = wonder			after, happily 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 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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