The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 74
“No. Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.”
Who acts: No., bronze ring, son · What happens: give, grant, wish · To what, where: bronze ring, son, anything
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (No., bronze ring, son), 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 Give | punct |
| 2 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 3 Give | nsubj |
| 3 | Give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 Give | iobj |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 ring | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ring | det |
| 7 | bronze | bronze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 ring | compound |
| 8 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Give | obl |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 grant | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 grant | aux |
| 11 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 12 grant | advmod |
| 12 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ring | acl:relcl |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 grant | obj |
| 14 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 grant | obj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 wish | nsubj |
| 16 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 anything | acl:relcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 wish | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Give | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | No. | the bronze ring | the gardener's son = son | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||
| 2 | grant in a quote | can | the bronze ring | anything | the gardener's son = son | instantly property | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent i=Goal anything=Theme | ||
| 3 | wish in a quote | present | the gardener's son = son | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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