The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 32
'Alas! your majesty,' he said, when he had finished, 'the wound is beyond the power of man to heal; but though I cannot cure it, I can at least deaden the pain, and enable you to walk without so much suffering.'
Who acts: land, wound, I, you · What happens: say, finish, be, heal, not cure, deaden · To what, where: majesty, pain, least, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (land, wound, I, you), 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 | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 2 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 5 majesty | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Alas | punct |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 majesty | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 finished | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 finished | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 finished | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 finished | aux |
| 14 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 power | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 power | punct |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 wound | det |
| 18 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 power | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 power | cop |
| 20 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 22 power | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 power | det |
| 22 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 finished | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 man | case |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 power | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 heal | mark |
| 26 | heal | heal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 man | acl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 deaden | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 deaden | cc |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 33 cure | mark |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 cure | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 cure | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 cure | advmod |
| 33 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 deaden | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 cure | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 cure | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 deaden | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 deaden | aux |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 39 least | case |
| 39 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 40 deaden | obl |
| 40 | deaden | deaden | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 pain | det |
| 42 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 deaden | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 enable | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 enable | cc |
| 45 | enable | enable | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 enable | obj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 walk | mark |
| 48 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 enable | xcomp |
| 49 | without | without | ADP | _ | 52 suffering | case |
| 50 | so | so | ADV | _ | 51 much | advmod |
| 51 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 suffering | amod |
| 52 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 walk | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 54 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | land | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | finish | past · perfect | land | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | is | present | the wound | beyond the power and man | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | heal | to-infinitive | the wound not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | not cure | can | I | majesty | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source | ||||
| 6 | deaden | can | I | the pain | least | tree rules | |||
| 7 | enable | present | land not said here | you | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | walk | to-infinitive | you not said here | without much suffering | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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