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The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 29

After everyone had tried his own particular cure, and found it fail, there came news of a wonderful doctor in some distant land who had healed the most astonishing diseases.

Who acts: news, distant land · What happens: try, find, come, heal, astonish · To what, where: own particular cure, cure, distant land, astonishing diseases

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 (news, distant land), 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

caseoblauxnmod:possamodamodobjpunctccparataxisobjobjpunctexplconjnsubjcasedetamodnmodcasedetamodoblnsubjauxacl:relcldetadvmodamodobjpunctrootAfterADPeveryonePRONhadAUXtriedVERBhisPRONownADJparticularADJcureNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJfoundVERBitPRONfailNOUN,PUNCTtherePRONcameVERBnewsNOUNofADPaDETwonderfulADJdoctorNOUNinADPsomeDETdistantADJlandNOUNwhoPRONhadAUXhealedVERBtheDETmostADVastonishingVERBdiseasesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterADP_2 everyonecase
2everyoneeveryonePRONNumber=Sing PronType=Tot4 triedobl
3hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 triedaux
4triedtryVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Partrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 curenmod:poss
6ownownADJDegree=Pos8 cureamod
7particularparticularADJDegree=Pos8 cureamod
8curecureNOUNNumber=Sing4 triedobj
9,,PUNCT_11 foundpunct
10andandCCONJ_11 foundcc
11foundfindVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 triedparataxis
12ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs11 foundobj
13failfailNOUNNumber=Sing11 foundobj
14,,PUNCT_16 camepunct
15theretherePRONPronType=Dem16 cameexpl
16camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 foundconj
17newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing16 camensubj
18ofofADP_21 doctorcase
19aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art21 doctordet
20wonderfulwonderfulADJDegree=Pos21 doctoramod
21doctordoctorNOUNNumber=Sing17 newsnmod
22ininADP_25 landcase
23somesomeDETPronType=Ind25 landdet
24distantdistantADJDegree=Pos25 landamod
25landlandNOUNNumber=Sing16 cameobl
26whowhoPRONPronType=Rel28 healednsubj
27hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 healedaux
28healedhealVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part25 landacl:relcl
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 diseasesdet
30mostmostADVDegree=Sup31 astonishingadvmod
31astonishingastonishVERBVerbForm=Ger32 diseasesamod
32diseasesdiseaseNOUNNumber=Plur28 healedobj
33..PUNCT_4 triedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1trypast · perfectBalancin's own particular cureafter everyonevn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Eventuality
2findpastcurevn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme fail=Attribute
3comepastnews of a wonderful doctorsome distant land; therevn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location
4healpast · perfectsome distant landthe astonishing diseasesvn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent disease=Patient
5astonishgerundvn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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