The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 71

‘I wish,’ says the smith, ‘I could do it; but I was looking at the crowns after the princesses got home, and I don’t think there’s a black or a white smith on the face of the earth that could imitate them.’

Who acts: I, princesses, earth · What happens: wish, say, do, look, get, not think · To what, where: smith, fortune, crowns · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, princesses, earth), 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	_	3 wish	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 wish	nsubj
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 wish	punct
6	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 smith	det
8	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 says	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 says	ccomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	obj
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 looking	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 looking	cc
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 looking	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looking	aux
19	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 says	advcl
20	at	at	ADP	_	22 crowns	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 crowns	det
22	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 looking	obl
23	after	after	SCONJ	_	26 got	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 princesses	det
25	princesses	princess	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 got	nsubj
26	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 looking	advcl
27	home	home	ADV	_	26 got	advmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 think	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 think	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 think	nsubj
31	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 think	aux
32	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	33 think	advmod
33	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 ’s	advcl
34	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	35 ’s	expl
35	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 says	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 smith	det
37	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 smith	amod
38	or	or	CCONJ	_	41 smith	cc
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 smith	det
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 smith	amod
41	smith	smith	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 ’s	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 face	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 face	det
44	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 smith	nmod
45	of	of	ADP	_	47 earth	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 earth	det
47	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 face	nmod
48	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 imitate	nsubj
49	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 imitate	aux
50	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 earth	acl:relcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 imitate	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct
53	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 says	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wish	present	I			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	present		the smith		tree rules
3	do	could	I	fortune		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
4	look	past · progressive	I		at the crowns	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at crown=Theme
5	get	past	the princesses		home property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	not think speech: other	present · do-support	I			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	imitate	could	the earth	crowns = crown		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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