The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 108

All the doctors could certify to that and they all put their names to this and appended their seals, and then they had done all they could.

Who acts: doctors · What happens: certify, put, append, do, name · To what, where: names, seals, all

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 (doctors), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 doctors	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 doctors	det
3	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 certify	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 certify	aux
5	certify	certify	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 certify	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 put	nsubj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 put	advmod
11	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 certify	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 names	nmod:poss
13	names	name	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 put	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 this	case
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 put	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 appended	cc
17	appended	append	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 put	conj
18	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 seals	nmod:poss
19	seals	seal	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 appended	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 done	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 done	cc
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 done	advmod
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 done	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 done	aux
25	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 certify	parataxis
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 done	obj
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 could	nsubj
28	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 done	obl:agent
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 certify	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	certify	could	all doctors			to that	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent to that=be'
2	put	present	doctors = doctor	doctors's names		to this	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent name=Goal
3	append	past	doctors = doctor not said here	doctors's seals			tree rules
4	do	past · perfect	doctors = doctor	all	then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
5	name		doctors = doctor				nom name «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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