The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 42
The most famous doctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summoned to the palace, but they shook their heads and came away again; never had they met with such a disease in all the course of their experience.
Who acts: doctors · What happens: summon, shake, come away, not have, meet, experience · To what, where: famous doctors, heads
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors), 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 | 4 doctors | det |
| 2 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 3 famous | advmod |
| 3 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 doctors | amod |
| 4 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 summoned | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 magicians | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 magicians | det |
| 7 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 magicians | amod |
| 8 | magicians | magician | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 doctors | conj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 summoned | aux:pass |
| 10 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 11 summoned | advmod |
| 11 | summoned | summon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 palace | det |
| 14 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 summoned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 shook | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 shook | cc |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shook | nsubj |
| 18 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 summoned | conj |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 heads | nmod:poss |
| 20 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 shook | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 came | cc |
| 22 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 shook | conj |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 24 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 came | advmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 had | punct |
| 26 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 27 had | advmod |
| 27 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 summoned | conj |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 met | nsubj |
| 29 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 had | ccomp |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 33 disease | case |
| 31 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 33 disease | det:predet |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 disease | det |
| 33 | disease | disease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 met | obl |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 course | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 37 course | det:predet |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 course | det |
| 37 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 disease | nmod |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 experience | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 experience | nmod:poss |
| 40 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 course | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · passive | the famous doctors and the greatest magicians | to the palace; hastily property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | doctors = doctor | doctors's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | come away | past | doctors = doctor not said here | again | away property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | not have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | meet | past | doctors = doctor | with such disease in all course of doctors's experience | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with disease=Co-Agent | ||||
| 6 | experience | doctors = doctor | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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