The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 48

‘Well, here is a gold ring,’ replied he, ‘and I will give it to the one amongst you who can make her husband believe the most impossible thing,’ and he left them.

Who acts: gold ring, man, I, husband · What happens: be, reply, give, make, believe, leave · To what, where: ring, one, Husbands

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gold ring, man, I, husband), 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	_	4 here	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	4 here	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	root	root
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 here	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ring	det
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ring	compound
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 here	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	11 replied	punct
11	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 here	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 replied	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
14	‘	‘	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 give	cc
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 give	nsubj
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 give	aux
18	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 here	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 give	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 one	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 one	det
22	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 make	obl
23	amongst	amongst	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 one	nmod
25	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 make	nsubj
26	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 make	aux
27	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 give	advcl
28	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 husband	nmod:poss
29	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 believe	nsubj
30	believe	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 make	parataxis
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 thing	det
32	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	33 impossible	advmod
33	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 thing	amod
34	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 believe	ccomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 thing	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	34 thing	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 left	cc
38	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	nsubj
39	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 believe	conj
40	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 left	obj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 here	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	a gold ring			here property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	man				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	give	future	I	ring			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	make	can			the one amongst you		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	believe	present	woman's husband				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
6	leave	past	man	Husbands = husband			vn keep-15.2 «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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