The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Branch, part 3, sentence 91

To complete her generous work the Fairy presented them with the wonderful cabinet and all the treasures it contained, which were worth at least ten kingdoms.

Who acts: Fairy, work, wonderful cabinet · What happens: complete, present, contain, be, work · To what, where: generous work, strokes, treasures

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Branch, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fairy, work, wonderful cabinet), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 complete	mark
2	complete	complete	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 presented	advcl
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 work	nmod:poss
4	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 work	amod
5	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 complete	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Fairy	det
7	Fairy	Fairy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 presented	nsubj
8	presented	present	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 presented	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 cabinet	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cabinet	det
12	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cabinet	amod
13	cabinet	cabinet	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 presented	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 treasures	cc
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 treasures	det:predet
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 treasures	det
17	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 cabinet	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 contained	nsubj
19	contained	contain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 treasures	acl:relcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 worth	punct
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 worth	nsubj
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 worth	cop
23	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 cabinet	conj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 least	case
25	least	least	ADJ	Degree=Sup	26 ten	nmod
26	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 kingdoms	nummod
27	kingdoms	kingdom	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 worth	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 presented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	complete	to-infinitive	the Fairy not said here	Fairy's generous work		vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
2	present	past	the Fairy	strokes = stroke	with the wonderful cabinet and all treasures	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Recipient with cabinet=Theme
3	contain	past	work	all treasures not said here		vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot treasure=Theme
4	is	past	the wonderful cabinet and all treasures		worth property	tree rules
5	work		Fairy			nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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