The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 46

When I say that the book declared that the balsam could heal every sort of sore or wound, there were a few against which it was powerless, and it gave certain signs by which these might be known.

Who acts: I, book, balsam, few, certain signs · What happens: say, declare, heal, be, give, know · To what, where: sort, certain signs, these, sore · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, book, balsam, few), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 say	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 declared	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 book	det
6	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 declared	nsubj
7	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 were	advcl
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 heal	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 balsam	det
10	balsam	balsam	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heal	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 heal	aux
12	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 declared	advcl
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 sort	det
14	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heal	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 sore	case
16	sore	sore	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sort	nmod
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	18 wound	cc
18	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sore	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 declared	punct
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 few	det
23	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 powerless	nsubj
24	against	against	ADP	_	25 which	case
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 powerless	obl
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 powerless	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 powerless	cop
28	powerless	powerless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 were	ccomp
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 gave	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 gave	cc
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 gave	nsubj
32	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 powerless	conj
33	certain	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 signs	amod
34	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 gave	obj
35	by	by	ADP	_	36 which	case
36	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 known	obl
37	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	40 known	nsubj:pass
38	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	40 known	aux
39	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	40 known	aux:pass
40	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 signs	acl:relcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	declare speech: other	past	the book				vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
3	heal	could	the balsam	every sort of sore or wound			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sort=Patient
4	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	is	past	a few			powerless property	tree rules
6	give	past	balsam	certain signs			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sign=Theme
7	know	might · passive	certain signs	these			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer subject=Stimulus
8	sort			sore or wound			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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