The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 27

In gratitude for her goodness to him, he told her that he was a wizard and could give her anything she chose to ask for, except life or death, so she answered that what she longed for most in the world was that my wrinkled skin should disappear, and that I should regain the beauty with which I was born.

Who acts: man, three, wrinkled skin, I · What happens: tell, be, give, choose, ask, answer · To what, where: three, gratitude, wizard, anything, most, world · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, three, wrinkled skin, I), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 gratitude	case
2	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	obl
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 goodness	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 goodness	nmod:poss
5	goodness	goodness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gratitude	nmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 goodness	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 gratitude	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	nsubj
10	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 told	iobj
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 wizard	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 wizard	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 wizard	cop
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 wizard	det
16	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 told	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 give	cc
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 give	aux
19	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 told	conj
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 give	iobj
21	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 give	obj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 chose	nsubj
23	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 anything	acl:relcl
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ask	mark
25	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 chose	xcomp
26	for	for	ADP	_	29 life	case
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 life	punct
28	except	except	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 ask	obl
30	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 death	cc
31	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 life	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 answered	punct
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 answered	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 answered	nsubj
35	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 told	parataxis
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 longed	mark
37	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	39 longed	obj
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 longed	nsubj
39	longed	long	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 answered	ccomp
40	for	for	ADP	_	41 most	case
41	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 longed	obj
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 world	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 world	det
44	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 most	nmod
45	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 disappear	cop
46	that	that	SCONJ	_	51 disappear	mark
47	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 skin	nmod:poss
48	wrinkled	wrinkle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	49 skin	amod
49	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 disappear	nsubj
50	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	51 disappear	aux
51	disappear	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 most	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 regain	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 regain	cc
54	that	that	SCONJ	_	57 regain	mark
55	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 regain	nsubj
56	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	57 regain	aux
57	regain	regain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 longed	conj
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 beauty	det
59	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 regain	obj
60	with	with	ADP	_	61 which	case
61	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	64 born	obl
62	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	64 born	nsubj:pass
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	64 born	aux:pass
64	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	59 beauty	acl:relcl
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	man		three	gratitude for three's goodness to man		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	is a	past	man	a wizard				tree rules
3	give	could	man not said here	anything	three			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient anything=Theme
4	choose	past	three					tree rules
5	ask speech: ask	to-infinitive	three not said here				for life or death	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	answer speech: assert	past	three					tree rules
7	long	past	three	most		the world		tree rules
8	wrinkle	participle						vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
9	is	should · past	my wrinkled skin				disappear property	tree rules
10	regain	should	I	the beauty				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme
11	bear	past · passive		I			with the beauty	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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