The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 38, sentence 6
I would gladly try any remedy that may relieve my pain.'
Who acts: I, remedy, my · What happens: try, relieve, pain · To what, where: remedy, pain
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, remedy, my), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 try | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 try | aux |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 try | advmod |
| 4 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 remedy | det |
| 6 | remedy | remedy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 try | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 relieve | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 relieve | aux |
| 9 | relieve | relieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 remedy | acl:relcl |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pain | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 relieve | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | would | I | any remedy | gladly property | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent remedy=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | relieve | may | any remedy | my pain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pain=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | pain | my | nom pain «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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