The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 57

It is only that shortly before we left I heard that the sultan of my country is very ill, and that the only thing to cure him is a monkey’s heart.’

Who acts: many, I, sultan, only thing · What happens: be, hear, cure · To what, where: friend, heart

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many, I, sultan, only thing), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 left	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
5	shortly	shortly	ADV	_	8 left	advmod
6	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 left	mark
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 left	nsubj
8	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 heard	nsubj
10	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 left	parataxis
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 ill	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 sultan	det
13	sultan	sultan	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ill	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 country	nmod:poss
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sultan	nmod
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 ill	cop
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 ill	advmod
19	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 heard	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 heart	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 heart	cc
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 heart	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 thing	det
24	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 thing	amod
25	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nsubj
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cure	mark
27	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 thing	acl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 cure	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 heart	cop
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 monkey	det
31	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 heart	nmod:poss
32	’s	's	PART	_	31 monkey	case
33	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 left	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct
35	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	many		leave, shortly property	tree rules
2	hear	past	I			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	the sultan of my country		ill property	tree rules
4	cure	to-infinitive	the only thing not said here	friend		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
5	is a	present	the only thing	a monkey's heart		tree rules

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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