The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 125

But my poor daughter had, a short time ago, such bad inflammation in her eyes that she would have gone blind had I not been able to find the magic herb, which cured her at once.'

Who acts: poor daughter, daughter, such bad inflammation, magic herb · What happens: have, go, not be, find, cure · To what, where: eyes, short time, magic herb, daughter

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor daughter, daughter, such bad inflammation, magic herb), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
2	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 daughter	nmod:poss
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 daughter	amod
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 time	det
8	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	amod
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
10	ago	ago	ADV	_	9 time	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 inflammation	punct
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 inflammation	amod
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 inflammation	amod
14	inflammation	inflammation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 able	nsubj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 eyes	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 eyes	nmod:poss
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 inflammation	nmod
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 gone	mark
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 gone	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 gone	aux
21	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 gone	aux
22	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 eyes	acl:relcl
23	blind	blind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 gone	xcomp
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 able	aux
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 able	nsubj
26	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 able	advmod
27	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	28 able	cop
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 time	acl:relcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 find	mark
30	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 herb	det
32	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 herb	amod
33	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 find	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cured	punct
35	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 cured	nsubj
36	cured	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 herb	acl:relcl
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 cured	obj
38	at	at	ADP	_	39 once	case
39	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	36 cured	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
41	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	my poor daughter		time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	go	would · perfect	daughter	daughter's eyes not said here		blind property	vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme
3	not is	past · perfect	such bad inflammation in daughter's eyes	a short time not said here		able property	tree rules
4	find	to-infinitive	such bad inflammation in daughter's eyes not said here	the magic herb			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Topic
5	cure	past	the magic herb	daughter			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source

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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