More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 18, sentence 18

The doctor tried to cure him, but he would not take any medicine unless from the hands of Catskin.

Who acts: doctor · What happens: try, cure, not take · To what, where: doctor, medicine

This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 doctor	det
2	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tried	nsubj
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 cure	mark
5	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cure	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 take	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 take	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 take	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 take	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 take	advmod
12	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	conj
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	14 medicine	det
14	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 take	obj
15	unless	unless	SCONJ	_	18 hands	case
16	from	from	ADP	_	18 hands	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 hands	det
18	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 take	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 Catskin	case
20	Catskin	Catskin	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 hands	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the doctor			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	cure not said to happen	to-infinitive	the doctor not said here	doctor		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
3	not take	would	doctor	any medicine	unless the hands of Catskin	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent medicine=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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