The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 52
All the best doctors in the country were sent for, but it was no use, for there is no cure for death.
Who acts: country, cure · What happens: send, be · To what, where: best doctors, use
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (country, cure), 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 | 4 doctors | det:predet |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 doctors | det |
| 3 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 doctors | amod |
| 4 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sent | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 doctors | nmod |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | aux:pass |
| 9 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 sent | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 use | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 use | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 use | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 use | cop |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 use | det |
| 16 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sent | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 is | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 is | case |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 20 is | expl |
| 20 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sent | parataxis |
| 21 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 cure | det |
| 22 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 is | nsubj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 cure | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past · passive | all best doctors in the country | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | country | no use | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no cure for death | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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