--- title: They sent for more distant doctors, and then for others more distant… — Irish Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics description: They sent for more distant doctors, and then for others more distant still, and at last they found a man who claimed that he could make a cure if the king were supplied with the medicine which he would order. Who acts: doctors, man, medicine. A sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chap --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/76/6/) [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/) / [Irish Fairy Tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/) / [Chapter V. Said Mongan:](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/76/) / 6 # Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter V. Said Mongan:, sentence 6 They sent for more distant doctors, and then for others more distant still, and at last they found a man who claimed that he could make a cure if the king were supplied with the medicine which he would order. **Who acts:** doctors, man, medicine · **What happens:** send, find, claim, make, supply, order · **To what, where:** man, last, cure, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter V. Said Mongan:. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctors, man, medicine), 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:pg2892:76:6 # text = They sent for more distant doctors, and then for others more distant still, and at last they found a man who claimed that he could make a cure if the king were supplied with the medicine which he would order. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 6 amod _ _ 5 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 doctors doctor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 9 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 13 advmod _ _ 10 for for ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 12 more more ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 13 advmod _ _ 13 distant distant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 parataxis _ _ 14 still still ADV RB _ 13 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 16 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 17 at at ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 18 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 obl _ _ 19 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 24 nsubj _ _ 24 claimed claim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 22 acl:relcl _ _ 25 that that SCONJ IN _ 28 mark _ _ 26 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 27 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 make make VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 ccomp _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 cure cure NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 33 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 supplied supply VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 28 advcl _ _ 36 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 38 medicine medicine NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obl _ _ 39 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 42 nsubj _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 42 nsubj _ _ 41 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 42 aux _ _ 42 order order VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 38 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | doctors *= doctor* | | | | | for more distant doctors | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **find** | past | doctors *= doctor* | a man | | last | | | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent man=Theme at last=Asset | | 3 | **claim** *speech: other* | past | a man | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **make** | could | man | a cure | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Product | | 5 | **supply** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive | | the king | | | | with the medicine | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with medicine=Theme | | 6 | **order** | would | the medicine | | | | | | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: 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:** «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (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 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/76/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2892/76/7/) - ↑ back to [Chapter V. 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