The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 12, sentence 108

'But I can't leave you like this,' he continued, starting up, 'I must summon all the court physicians to apply soothing balsams to the sore place!

Who acts: I, prince · What happens: not leave, continue, start up, summon, apply · To what, where: you, court physicians, soothing balsams

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (I, prince), 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 leave	cc
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 leave	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 leave	advmod
6	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 leave	obj
8	like	like	ADP	_	9 this	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 leave	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 continued	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 continued	nsubj
13	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 leave	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 starting	punct
15	starting	start	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 continued	advcl
16	up	up	ADP	_	15 starting	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 summon	punct
18	'	'	PUNCT	_	21 summon	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 summon	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 summon	aux
21	summon	summon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 starting	conj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 physicians	det:predet
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 physicians	det
24	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 physicians	compound
25	physicians	physician	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 summon	obj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 apply	mark
27	apply	apply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 summon	advcl
28	soothing	soothing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 balsams	amod
29	balsams	balsam	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 apply	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 place	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 place	det
32	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 place	amod
33	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 apply	obl
34	!	!	PUNCT	_	6 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not leave	can	I	you	like this	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	continue	past	prince			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	start up	gerund	prince not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
4	summon	must	I	all court physicians		vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent physician=Recipient
5	apply	to-infinitive	I not said here	soothing balsams	to the sore place	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent balsam=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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