The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2, sentence 35
All the doctors and all the water-cures in the kingdom had been tried, and nothing would do him any good.
Who acts: nothing · What happens: try, do · To what, where: doctors, Saphir
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nothing), 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 | 15 tried | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 cures | cc |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 cures | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cures | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cures | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 water | punct |
| 9 | cures | cure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 doctors | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 kingdom | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kingdom | det |
| 12 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cures | nmod |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 tried | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 tried | aux:pass |
| 15 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 do | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 do | cc |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 do | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 do | aux |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 tried | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obj |
| 22 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 good | det |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 do | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · perfect · passive | all doctors and all water cures in the kingdom | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | would | nothing | Saphir | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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