--- title: The most famous doctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summ… — The Crimson Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: The most famous doctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summoned to the palace, but they shook their heads and came away again; never had they met with such a disease in all the course of their experience. Who acts: doctors. A sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/42/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/) / [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/) / 42 # The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 42 The most famous doctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summoned to the palace, but they shook their heads and came away again; never had they met with such a disease in all the course of their experience. **Who acts:** doctors · **What happens:** summon, shake, come away, not have, meet, experience · **To what, where:** famous doctors, heads This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg2435:12:42 # text = The most famous doctors and the greatest magicians were hastily summoned to the palace, but they shook their heads and came away again; never had they met with such a disease in all the course of their experience. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 2 most most ADV RBS Degree=Sup 3 advmod _ _ 3 famous famous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 greatest great ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 8 amod _ _ 8 magicians magician NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 conj _ _ 9 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux:pass _ _ 10 hastily hastily ADV RB _ 11 advmod _ _ 11 summoned summon VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 palace palace NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 17 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 19 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 20 nmod:poss _ _ 20 heads head NOUN NNS Number=Plur 18 obj _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 came come VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 18 conj _ _ 23 away away ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ _ 24 again again ADV RB _ 22 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 26 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 27 advmod _ _ 27 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ _ 28 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 29 nsubj _ _ 29 met meet VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 ccomp _ _ 30 with with ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 31 such such DET PDT PronType=Ind 33 det:predet _ _ 32 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 disease disease NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 obl _ _ 34 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 35 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 37 det:predet _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 course course NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 nmod _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 experience experience NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 11 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **summon** | past · passive | | the famous doctors and the greatest magicians | | | | to the palace; hastily *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient | | 2 | **shake** | past | doctors *= doctor* | doctors's heads | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | | 3 | **come away** | past | doctors *= doctor* *not said here* | | | | again | away *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **not** **have** | past | | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **meet** | past | doctors *= doctor* | | | | | with such disease in all course of doctors's experience | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with disease=Co-Agent | | 6 | **experience** | | doctors *= doctor* | | | | | | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 41](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/41/) - next →: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/43/) - ↑ back to [The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/12/)