The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 5

Everyone had almost given up hope, when one day a doctor arrived who was cleverer than the rest, and said that the only thing that would cure her was the liver of an ape.

Who acts: doctor, only thing · What happens: give up, arrive, be, say, cure · To what, where: Everyone, queen, liver · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor, only thing), 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	Everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 given	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	aux
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	4 given	advmod
4	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 given	compound:prt
6	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 given	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 arrived	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 arrived	advmod
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 day	nummod
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	obl:unmarked
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 doctor	det
12	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 arrived	nsubj
13	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 given	advcl
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 cleverer	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 cleverer	cop
16	cleverer	clever	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	13 arrived	ccomp
17	than	than	ADP	_	19 rest	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 cleverer	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 arrived	conj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 liver	mark
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 thing	det
25	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 thing	amod
26	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 liver	nsubj
27	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 cure	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 cure	aux
29	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 thing	acl:relcl
30	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 cure	obj
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 liver	cop
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 liver	det
33	liver	liver	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 ape	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 ape	det
36	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 liver	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 given	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · perfect · passive		Everyone		almost property	tree rules
2	arrive	past	a doctor		day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				than the rest; clever property	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past	a doctor not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	cure	would	the only thing	queen			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=Source
6	is a	past	the only thing	the liver		of a ape	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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