The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 218

But the manikin said: “No, a living creature is dearer to me than all the treasures in the world.”

Who acts: manikin, living creature · What happens: say, be · To what, where: manikin · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (manikin, living creature), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 said	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 manikin	det
3	manikin	manikin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 dearer	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 dearer	punct
7	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	13 dearer	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 No	punct
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 creature	det
10	living	living	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 creature	amod
11	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dearer	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 dearer	cop
13	dearer	dear	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 me	case
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 dearer	obl
16	than	than	ADP	_	19 treasures	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 treasures	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 treasures	det
19	treasures	treasure	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 dearer	obl
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 world	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 world	det
22	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 treasures	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
24	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the manikin						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	a living creature		the manikin = manikin			than all treasures in the world; dear property	tree rules

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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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