--- title: ‘Well, here is a gold ring,’ replied he, ‘and I will give it to the… — The Lilac Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: ‘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. 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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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg3454:36:48 # text = ‘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. 1 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Well well INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 here here ADV RB PronType=Dem 0 root _ _ 5 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 cop _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 gold gold NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 compound _ _ 8 ring ring NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 11 punct _ _ 11 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 14 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 give give VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 4 conj _ _ 19 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 obj _ _ 20 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 one one NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 23 amongst amongst ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 22 nmod _ _ 25 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 27 nsubj _ _ 26 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 advcl _ _ 28 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 29 nmod:poss _ _ 29 husband husband NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 believe believe VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 parataxis _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 33 advmod _ _ 33 impossible impossible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 36 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 34 punct _ _ 37 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 38 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 nsubj _ _ 39 left leave VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 39 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 47](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/47/) - next →: [sentence 49](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/49/) - ↑ back to [The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/36/)