The Blue Fairy Book, The Bronze Ring, sentence 53
He alone can cure the King and give him back the strength of his youth.’
Who acts: physician · What happens: cure, give back · To what, where: King, strength, physician
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Bronze Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (physician), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 cure | nsubj |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 cure | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 cure | aux |
| 4 | cure | cure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 cure | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 give | cc |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 cure | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | back | back | ADP | _ | 8 give | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 strength | det |
| 12 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 youth | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 youth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 strength | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cure | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | can | physician | the King | alone property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer king=Source | |||
| 2 | give back | infinitive | physician not said here | the strength of physician's youth | physician | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient strength=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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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