The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 2

He fell very ill, sent for doctors of every kind, even bonesetters, but they, none of them, could find out what was the matter with him, or even give him any relief.

Who acts: lord, bonesetters · What happens: fall, send, find out, be, give · To what, where: matter, relief, lord

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord, bonesetters), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 ill	advmod
4	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fell	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sent	punct
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 ill	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 doctors	case
8	doctors	doctor	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sent	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 kind	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 kind	det
11	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doctors	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bonesetters	punct
13	even	even	ADV	_	14 bonesetters	advmod
14	bonesetters	bonesetter	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 doctors	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 find	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 they	punct
19	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	17 they	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 them	case
21	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 none	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 they	punct
23	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fell	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 find	compound:prt
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	29 matter	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 matter	cop
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 matter	det
29	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 find	parataxis
30	with	with	ADP	_	31 him	case
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 matter	nmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 give	punct
33	or	or	CCONJ	_	35 give	cc
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 give	advmod
35	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 fell	conj
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 give	iobj
37	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	38 relief	det
38	relief	relief	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 give	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	fall	past	lord			ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	send	participle	lord not said here			for doctors of every kind and bonesetters	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	find out	could	bonesetters = bonesetter				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past		the matter		with lord	tree rules
5	give	infinitive	lord not said here	any relief	lord		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient relief=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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