The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 3

At last there came a foreign doctor, who declared that the Golden Blackbird alone could cure the sick man.

Who acts: foreign doctor, Golden Blackbird · What happens: come, declare, cure · To what, where: last, sick man · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (foreign doctor, Golden Blackbird), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 came	obl
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 came	expl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 doctor	det
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doctor	amod
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 declared	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 declared	nsubj
10	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doctor	acl:relcl
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 cure	mark
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Blackbird	det
13	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 Blackbird	amod
14	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 cure	nsubj
15	alone	alone	ADV	_	14 Blackbird	advmod
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 cure	aux
17	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 declared	ccomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 man	det
19	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 man	amod
20	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cure	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	a foreign doctor		last; there	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location
2	declare speech: other	past	a foreign doctor			vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	cure	could	the Golden Blackbird	the sick man		vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer man=Source

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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