The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 66

Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said that the only thing to cure him was the flesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only man who could get it was a man with a strange mark on his chest.

Who acts: Sultan, wise men, only thing, only man, thing · What happens: be, say, cure, get · To what, where: man, flesh · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, wise men, only thing, only man), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 ill	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Sultan	det
3	Sultan	Sultan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 ill	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 city	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 city	det
6	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Sultan	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ill	cop
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 ill	advmod
9	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 men	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 men	det
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 men	amod
15	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ill	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 flesh	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 thing	det
19	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 thing	amod
20	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 flesh	nsubj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 cure	mark
22	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 thing	acl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 cure	obj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 flesh	cop
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 flesh	det
26	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	ccomp
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 King	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 King	det
29	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 flesh	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 Snakes	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Snakes	det
32	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 King	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 get	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 get	cc
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 get	mark
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 man	det
37	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 man	amod
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	nsubj
39	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 get	nsubj
40	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 get	aux
41	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 ill	conj
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 man	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 man	cop
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 man	det
45	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 get	ccomp
46	with	with	ADP	_	49 mark	case
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 mark	det
48	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 mark	amod
49	mark	mark	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 man	nmod
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 chest	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 chest	nmod:poss
52	chest	chest	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 mark	nmod
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 ill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Sultan of the city		now	ill property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	all wise men				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	cure	to-infinitive	the only thing not said here	man			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source
4	is a	past	the only thing	the flesh		of the King of the Snakes	tree rules
5	get	could	the only man				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
6	is a	past	thing	a man		with a strange mark on man's chest	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 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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