The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 45

This was the description of a balsam-- which would cure every kind of sore or wound--distilled from a plant only to be found in a country so distant that it would take a man on foot two months to go and come back again.

Who acts: This, description, it · What happens: be, cure, distil, find, take, go · To what, where: description, kind, plant, country, man, foot

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, description, it), 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 description	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 description	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 description	det
4	description	description	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 balsam	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 balsam	det
7	balsam	balsam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 description	nmod
8	--	--	PUNCT	_	11 cure	punct
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 cure	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 cure	aux
11	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 description	conj
12	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	13 kind	det
13	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cure	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 sore	case
15	sore	sore	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 kind	nmod
16	or	or	CCONJ	_	17 wound	cc
17	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sore	conj
18	--	--	PUNCT	_	19 distilled	punct
19	distilled	distil	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 description	conj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 plant	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 plant	det
22	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 distilled	obl
23	only	only	ADV	_	26 found	advmod
24	to	to	PART	_	26 found	mark
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 found	aux:pass
26	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 distilled	advcl
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 country	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 country	det
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 found	obl
30	so	so	ADV	_	31 distant	advmod
31	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 found	xcomp
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	35 take	mark
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 take	nsubj
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 take	aux
35	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 distant	advcl
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 man	det
37	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 take	obj
38	on	on	ADP	_	39 foot	case
39	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 man	nmod
40	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 months	nummod
41	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 take	obl:unmarked
42	to	to	PART	_	43 go	mark
43	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 take	advcl
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 come	cc
45	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 go	conj
46	back	back	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
47	again	again	ADV	_	45 come	advmod
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 description	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	This	the description			of a balsam	tree rules
2	cure	would	the description	every kind of sore or wound				vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer kind=Source
3	distil	participle	This not said here		a plant			vn wipe_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from plant=Source
4	find	to-infinitive · passive	This not said here		a country		distant property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»
5	take	would	it	a man	foot	month		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent man=Theme on foot=Destination
6	go	to-infinitive						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	come back	infinitive				again		vn escape-51.1-1 «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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