The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 62

‘My daughter’s tricks are the hardest things that ever met me,’ said the giant, ‘but if I had my lever and my crowbar, I would not be long in making my way through this rock also,’ but as he had got them, he had to go home and fetch them.

Who acts: tricks, hardest things, I, crowbar, son, daughter · What happens: be, meet, say, have, not be, make · To what, where: hardest things, giant, lever, way, rock, things · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tricks, hardest things, I, crowbar), 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	_	16 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 daughter	nmod:poss
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricks	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 daughter	case
5	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 things	nsubj
6	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 things	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 things	det
8	hardest	hard	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 things	amod
9	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 met	obj
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 met	advmod
12	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 things	acl:relcl
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 met	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 met	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 met	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 giant	det
18	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 had	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 had	nsubj
24	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
25	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 lever	nmod:poss
26	lever	lever	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 had	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 long	cc
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 crowbar	nmod:poss
29	crowbar	crowbar	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 long	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 crowbar	punct
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 long	nsubj
32	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 long	aux
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	35 long	advmod
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 long	cop
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 had	conj
36	in	in	SCONJ	_	37 making	mark
37	making	make	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 long	advcl
38	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 way	nmod:poss
39	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 making	obj
40	through	through	ADP	_	42 rock	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 rock	det
42	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 making	obl
43	also	also	ADV	_	45 ’	advmod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 also	punct
45	’	'	PUNCT	_	37 making	xcomp
46	but	but	CCONJ	_	54 had	cc
47	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 got	mark
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 got	nsubj
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 got	aux
50	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	54 had	advcl
51	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 got	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 got	punct
53	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 had	nsubj
54	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 long	conj
55	to	to	PART	_	56 go	mark
56	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 had	xcomp
57	home	home	ADV	_	56 go	advmod
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 fetch	cc
59	fetch	fetch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	56 go	conj
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 fetch	obj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	My daughter's tricks	the hardest things				tree rules
2	meet	past		the hardest things		ever		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past	the hardest things	the giant				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent giant=Topic
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I	my lever				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lever=Patient
5	not is	would	my crowbar				long property	tree rules
6	make	gerund	my crowbar not said here	my way	this rock			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset way=Product
7	get	past · perfect	son	things = thing				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
8	have	past	son					tree rules
9	go	to-infinitive	son not said here				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	fetch	infinitive	son not said here	things = thing				vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
11	trick		My daughter					nom trick «act transitive»: 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 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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