The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 2

Once upon a time when wishes came true there was a king’s son who was enchanted by an old witch, so that he was obliged to sit in a large iron stove in a wood.

Who acts: wishes, old witch · What happens: be, enchant, oblige, sit · To what, where: true son, king, large iron stove

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wishes, old witch), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 true	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 true	advmod
6	wishes	wish	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 true	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 true	cop
8	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 son	amod
9	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	10 was	expl
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 son	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 king	det
12	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 son	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 king	case
14	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 enchanted	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 enchanted	aux:pass
17	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 son	acl:relcl
18	by	by	ADP	_	21 witch	case
19	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 witch	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 witch	amod
21	witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 enchanted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 obliged	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 obliged	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 obliged	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 obliged	aux:pass
27	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 enchanted	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 sit	mark
29	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 obliged	xcomp
30	in	in	ADP	_	34 stove	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stove	det
32	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 stove	amod
33	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 stove	compound
34	stove	stove	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sit	obl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 wood	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wood	det
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sit	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 son	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	wishes			once, true property	tree rules
2	is a	past		a king's true son			tree rules
3	enchant	past · passive	a old witch	a king's true son			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
4	oblige	past · passive		king			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	sit	to-infinitive			a large iron stove	in a wood	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stove=Location

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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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