The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 27
The best doctors in the kingdom treated it with all their skill; they bathed, and poulticed, and bandaged, but it was in vain.
Who acts: best doctors, doctors, foot · What happens: treat, bath, poultice, bandage, be · To what, where: foot
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (best doctors, doctors, foot), 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 | 3 doctors | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 doctors | amod |
| 3 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 treated | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 kingdom | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 kingdom | det |
| 6 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doctors | nmod |
| 7 | treated | treat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 treated | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 skill | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 skill | det:predet |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 skill | nmod:poss |
| 12 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 treated | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 bathed | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bathed | nsubj |
| 15 | bathed | bath | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 treated | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 poulticed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 poulticed | cc |
| 18 | poulticed | poultice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bathed | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bandaged | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bandaged | cc |
| 21 | bandaged | bandage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 poulticed | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 vain | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 vain | cc |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 vain | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 vain | cop |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 vain | case |
| 27 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bathed | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 treated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past | the best doctors in the kingdom | foot | with doctors's skill | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with skill=Theme | |||
| 2 | bath | past | doctors = doctor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | poultice | past | doctors = doctor not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bandage | participle | doctors = doctor not said here | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is | past | foot | vain property | tree rules |
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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