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title: “No. Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anyth… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: “No. Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.” Who acts: No., bronze ring, son. A sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 74

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“No. Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.”

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**Who acts:** No., bronze ring, son · **What happens:** give, grant, wish · **To what, where:** bronze ring, son, anything

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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.

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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:pg503:2:74
# text = “No. Give me only the bronze ring which can instantly grant me anything I wish for.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	No.	no.	NOUN	NN	Abbr=Yes|Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	Give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	iobj	_	_
5	only	only	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
10	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	instantly	instantly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	grant	grant	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	acl:relcl	_	_
13	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	12	obj	_	_
15	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	wish	wish	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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 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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