The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 76

‘More costly and precious than all the crowns in the world,’ replied the stranger, ‘for not only will the basin furnish you with the best food that you can dream of, but if you drink of it, it will cure you of any illness however dangerous, and will even bring the dead back to life, if it touches their mouths.

Who acts: best food, you, basin · What happens: reply, furnish, dream, drink, cure, bring · To what, where: stranger, you, dead back, life, mouths

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best food, you, basin), 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 costly	punct
2	More	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 costly	advmod
3	costly	costly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 precious	cc
5	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 costly	conj
6	than	than	ADP	_	9 crowns	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 crowns	det:predet
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crowns	det
9	crowns	crown	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 precious	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 world	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 world	det
12	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 crowns	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 costly	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 stranger	det
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 replied	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 furnish	punct
19	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 furnish	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	25 basin	case
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 basin	advmod
22	only	only	ADV	_	25 basin	advmod
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 basin	aux
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 basin	det
25	basin	basin	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 furnish	obl
26	furnish	furnish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 replied	parataxis
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 furnish	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	31 food	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 food	det
30	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	31 food	amod
31	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 furnish	obl
32	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	35 dream	nsubj
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	35 dream	nsubj
34	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 dream	aux
35	dream	dream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 food	acl:relcl
36	of	of	ADP	_	35 dream	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 cure	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 cure	cc
39	if	if	SCONJ	_	41 drink	mark
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 drink	nsubj
41	drink	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 cure	advcl
42	of	of	ADP	_	43 it	case
43	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 drink	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 drink	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 cure	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 cure	aux
47	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 furnish	conj
48	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	47 cure	obj
49	of	of	ADP	_	51 illness	case
50	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	51 illness	det
51	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 cure	obl
52	however	however	ADV	_	53 dangerous	advmod
53	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 illness	amod
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 bring	punct
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 bring	cc
56	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 bring	aux
57	even	even	ADV	_	58 bring	advmod
58	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	47 cure	parataxis
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	61 back	det
60	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	61 back	amod
61	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bring	obj
62	to	to	ADP	_	63 life	case
63	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 bring	obl
64	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 touches	punct
65	if	if	SCONJ	_	67 touches	mark
66	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	67 touches	nsubj
67	touches	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	58 bring	conj
68	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	69 mouths	nmod:poss
69	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 touches	obj
70	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 costly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		the stranger				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic
2	furnish	present			you		for the basin; with the best food	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with food=Theme
3	dream	can	the best food					vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	drink a condition, not said to happen	present	you				of basin	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source
5	cure	future	basin	you			of any illness	vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source of illness=Theme
6	bring	future		the dead back		life		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to life=Destination
7	touch a condition, not said to happen	present	basin	crowns's mouths				vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Co-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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