The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 107
He immediately summoned all the best doctors in the country, and they came with all their prescriptions and their medicine bottles, but next day the princess was stiff and cold in death.
Who acts: tuft, doctors, next day · What happens: summon, come, be, prescribe · To what, where: best doctors, country, death
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tuft, doctors, next day), 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 | 3 summoned | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 summoned | advmod |
| 3 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 doctors | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 doctors | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 doctors | amod |
| 7 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 summoned | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 country | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 country | det |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 summoned | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 summoned | parataxis |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 prescriptions | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 prescriptions | det:predet |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prescriptions | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prescriptions | prescription | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 came | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bottles | cc |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bottles | nmod:poss |
| 21 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bottles | compound |
| 22 | bottles | bottle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 prescriptions | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 stiff | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 stiff | cc |
| 25 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 day | amod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stiff | nsubj |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 princess | det |
| 28 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stiff | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 stiff | cop |
| 30 | stiff | stiff | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 came | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 cold | cc |
| 32 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stiff | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 death | case |
| 34 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stiff | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past | tuft | all best doctors | the country | immediately property | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doctor=Recipient | ||
| 2 | come | past | doctors = doctor | with doctors's prescriptions and doctors's medicine bottles | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | next day | death | stiff property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | next day not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | prescribe | doctors = doctor | nom prescription «communication 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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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