The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 17
He sold not only all kinds of medicine, but also dealt in many strange charms against witches and evil spirits.
Who acts: doctor · What happens: sell, deal · To what, where: kinds, many strange charms
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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 sold | nsubj |
| 2 | sold | sell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 kinds | advmod |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 6 kinds | advmod |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 kinds | det |
| 6 | kinds | kind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sold | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 medicine | case |
| 8 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kinds | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dealt | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 dealt | cc |
| 11 | also | also | ADV | _ | 12 dealt | advmod |
| 12 | dealt | deal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 sold | conj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 charms | case |
| 14 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 charms | amod |
| 15 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 charms | amod |
| 16 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 dealt | obl |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 witches | case |
| 18 | witches | witch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 charms | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 spirits | cc |
| 20 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 spirits | amod |
| 21 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 witches | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sold | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past | doctor | all kinds of medicine | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme | ||||
| 2 | deal | participle | doctor not said here | many strange charms against witches and evil spirits | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
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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