"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure, sentence 9

Grandma gets it right when she laughs, "Miracle cream my foot, the only thing it removed was twenty quid from my purse": she laughs at the claim, and at herself.

Who acts: Grandma, thing, only thing · What happens: get, laugh, remove, be · To what, where: proof, only thing, twenty quid, purse, claim · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «"It's natural so it's healthy" and the miracle cure» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grandma, thing, only thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

Pragmatics

form

statement

act

assert

voice

character

polarity

neg

teacher

changed polarity=neg

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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