The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 61

In short, it cures all sick persons of the most mortal diseases; and if the patient is dying it will recover him immediately and restore him to perfect health; and this is done after the easiest manner in the world, which is by the patient’s smelling the apple.”

Who acts: apple, patient, world · What happens: cure, die, recover, restore, do, be · To what, where: sick persons, short, apple, patient, this, world

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, patient, world), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 short	case
2	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cures	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 short	punct
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cures	nsubj
5	cures	cure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 smelling	csubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 persons	det
7	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 persons	amod
8	persons	person	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 cures	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	13 diseases	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 diseases	det
11	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	12 mortal	advmod
12	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 diseases	amod
13	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 persons	nmod
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 recover	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 recover	cc
16	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 dying	mark
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 patient	det
18	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dying	nsubj
19	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 dying	aux
20	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 recover	advcl
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 dying	obj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 recover	aux
23	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 cures	conj
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 recover	obj
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	23 recover	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 restore	cc
27	restore	restore	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 recover	conj
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 restore	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	31 health	mark
30	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 health	amod
31	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 restore	xcomp
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 done	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 done	cc
34	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	36 done	nsubj:pass
35	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 done	aux:pass
36	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 cures	parataxis
37	after	after	ADP	_	40 manner	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 manner	det
39	easiest	easy	ADJ	Degree=Sup	40 manner	amod
40	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 done	obl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 world	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 world	det
43	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 done	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 patient	punct
45	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	49 patient	nsubj
46	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 patient	cop
47	by	by	ADP	_	49 patient	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 patient	det
49	patient	patient	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 world	conj
50	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 smelling	aux
51	smelling	smell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
52	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	53 apple	det
53	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 smelling	obj
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	51 smelling	punct
55	”	"	PUNCT	_	51 smelling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cure	present	apple	all sick persons of the mortal diseases	short			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer person=Source
2	die a condition, not said to happen	present · progressive	the patient	apple				tree rules
3	recover	future	apple not said here	patient			immediately property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	restore	infinitive	apple not said here	patient				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	do	present · passive		this	the world and the patient	after the easiest manner		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	is	present	the world and the patient				by the patient	tree rules
7	smell	present · progressive		the apple				vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus

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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