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title: ‘More costly and precious than all the crowns in the world,’ replied… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘More costly and precious than all the crowns in the world,’ replied the stranger, ‘for not only will the basin furnish you with the best food that you can dream of, but if you drink of it, it will cure you of any illness however dangerous, and will even bring the dead back to life, if it touches th
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# The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 76

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‘More costly and precious than all the crowns in the world,’ replied the stranger, ‘for not only will the basin furnish you with the best food that you can dream of, but if you drink of it, it will cure you of any illness however dangerous, and will even bring the dead back to life, if it touches their mouths.

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**Who acts:** best food, you, basin · **What happens:** reply, furnish, dream, drink, cure, bring · **To what, where:** stranger, you, dead back, life, mouths

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This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best food, you, basin), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg3454:26:76
# text = ‘More costly and precious than all the crowns in the world,’ replied the stranger, ‘for not only will the basin furnish you with the best food that you can dream of, but if you drink of it, it will cure you of any illness however dangerous, and will even bring the dead back to life, if it touches their mouths.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	More	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
3	costly	costly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	than	than	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	9	det:predet	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	crowns	crown	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	_
15	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
21	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
22	only	only	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	basin	basin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
26	furnish	furnish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	parataxis	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	31	amod	_	_
31	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
32	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
33	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	35	nsubj	_	_
34	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	35	aux	_	_
35	dream	dream	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	acl:relcl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
38	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
39	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	41	mark	_	_
40	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
41	drink	drink	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	47	advcl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
45	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
46	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	47	aux	_	_
47	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
48	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
50	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	51	det	_	_
51	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	_
52	however	however	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
53	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
55	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	58	cc	_	_
56	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	58	aux	_	_
57	even	even	ADV	RB	_	58	advmod	_	_
58	bring	bring	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	47	parataxis	_	_
59	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	61	det	_	_
60	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	61	amod	_	_
61	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obj	_	_
62	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
63	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	58	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	67	punct	_	_
65	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	67	mark	_	_
66	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	67	nsubj	_	_
67	touches	touch	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	58	conj	_	_
68	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	69	nmod:poss	_	_
69	mouths	mouth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	67	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
70	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past |  | the stranger |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic |
| 2 | **furnish** | present |  |  | you |  |  | for the basin; with the best food | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with food=Theme |
| 3 | **dream** | can | the best food |  |  |  |  |  | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **drink** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | of basin | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent of it=Source |
| 5 | **cure** | future | basin | you |  |  |  | of any illness | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer you=Source of illness=Theme |
| 6 | **bring** | future |  | the dead back |  | life |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent back=Theme to life=Destination |
| 7 | **touch** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | basin | crowns's mouths |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mouth=Co-Theme |

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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.

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**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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