The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 21

None of my drugs will avail to cure you, but, if you are willing to pay me handsomely, I can tell you how you may be cured.’

Who acts: None, you, I · What happens: avail, cure, be, pay, tell · To what, where: you, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (None, you, I), 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	None	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	6 avail	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 drugs	case
3	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 drugs	nmod:poss
4	drugs	drug	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 None	nmod
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 avail	aux
6	avail	avail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 cure	mark
8	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 avail	xcomp
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 cure	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 tell	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	24 tell	cc
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 but	punct
13	if	if	SCONJ	_	16 willing	mark
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 willing	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 willing	cop
16	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 tell	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pay	mark
18	pay	pay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 willing	xcomp
19	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 pay	iobj
20	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	18 pay	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 willing	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 tell	nsubj
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 tell	aux
24	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 avail	conj
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 tell	iobj
26	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	30 cured	advmod
27	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	30 cured	nsubj:pass
28	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 cured	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	30 cured	aux:pass
30	cured	cure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 tell	advcl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 avail	punct
32	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 avail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	avail	future	None				tree rules
2	cure	to-infinitive	None not said here	you			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source
3	is a condition, not said to happen	present	you			willing property	tree rules
4	pay	to-infinitive	you not said here		me	handsomely property	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset
5	tell speech: assert	can	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	cure	may · passive		you			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=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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