The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 101
‘The same things,’ answered the Fairy, ‘are often a healing medicine to one person and a deadly poison to another.
Who acts: same things, healing medicine · What happens: answer, be · To what, where: Fairy
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (same things, healing medicine), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 things | det |
| 3 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 things | amod |
| 4 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 things | punct |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Fairy | det |
| 9 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 are | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ‘ | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 are | expl |
| 12 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 answered | conj |
| 13 | often | often | ADV | _ | 16 medicine | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 medicine | det |
| 15 | healing | healing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 medicine | compound |
| 16 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 person | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 person | nummod |
| 19 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 are | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 poison | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 poison | det |
| 22 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 poison | amod |
| 23 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 person | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 another | case |
| 25 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 poison | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the same things | the Fairy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fairy=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a healing medicine | to one person and a deadly poison to another | 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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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