The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 50

“It is the best thing I have ever heard,” answered the fox; and as they were two to one the bear had to be content, though in his heart he would much have preferred a good dinner at once to any friendship.

Who acts: plan, fox, thoughts, bear · What happens: be, hear, answer, have, prefer, dinner · To what, where: best thing, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (plan, fox, thoughts, bear), 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	_	6 thing	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thing	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
5	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	6 thing	amod
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	nsubj
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
8	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 heard	aux
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 heard	advmod
10	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 thing	acl:relcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct
13	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 answered	obj
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 had	cc
18	as	as	ADP	_	23 one	case
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 one	nsubj
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 one	cop
21	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 one	nummod
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 had	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bear	det
25	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	nsubj
26	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 answered	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	29 content	mark
28	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 content	cop
29	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 had	xcomp
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 dinner	punct
31	though	though	SCONJ	_	42 dinner	mark
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 heart	case
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 heart	nmod:poss
34	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 dinner	obl
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	42 dinner	nsubj
36	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 dinner	aux
37	much	much	ADV	_	39 preferred	advmod
38	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	39 preferred	aux
39	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 dinner	amod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 dinner	det
41	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 dinner	amod
42	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 had	obl
43	at	at	ADP	_	44 once	case
44	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	26 had	obl
45	to	to	ADP	_	47 friendship	case
46	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	47 friendship	det
47	friendship	friendship	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 once	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	plan	the best thing				tree rules
2	hear in a quote	present · perfect	the fox = fox	the best thing not said here		ever		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
3	answer speech: assert	past	the fox					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	thoughts = thought				as two one	tree rules
5	have	past	the bear					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	is	to-infinitive	the bear not said here				content property	tree rules
7	prefer	infinitive · perfect						vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
8	dinner	would	bear		bear's heart			tree rules

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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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