The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 37

So she gave him a ring, which enabled him who wore it to obtain two wishes.

Who acts: mother, ring · What happens: give, enable, wear, obtain · To what, where: ring, father, two wishes

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, ring), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 ring	det
6	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 enabled	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 enabled	nsubj
9	enabled	enable	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ring	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 enabled	obj
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 wore	nsubj
12	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enabled	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wore	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 obtain	mark
15	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 wore	advcl
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wishes	nummod
17	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 obtain	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	mother	a ring	father	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Theme
2	enable	past	a ring	father		tree rules
3	wear	past		ring		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	obtain	to-infinitive		two wishes		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wish=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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