--- title: But my poor daughter had, a short time ago, such bad inflammation in… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: But my poor daughter had, a short time ago, such bad inflammation in her eyes that she would have gone blind had I not been able to find the magic herb, which cured her at once.' Who acts: poor daughter, daughter, such bad inflammation, magic herb. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lan --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/125/) [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 Orange Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/) / [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/) / 125 # The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 125 But my poor daughter had, a short time ago, such bad inflammation in her eyes that she would have gone blind had I not been able to find the magic herb, which cured her at once.' **Who acts:** poor daughter, daughter, such bad inflammation, magic herb · **What happens:** have, go, not be, find, cure · **To what, where:** eyes, short time, magic herb, daughter This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor daughter, daughter, such bad inflammation, magic herb), 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:pg3027:32:125 # text = But my poor daughter had, a short time ago, such bad inflammation in her eyes that she would have gone blind had I not been able to find the magic herb, which cured her at once.' 1 But but CCONJ CC _ 5 cc _ _ 2 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 4 nmod:poss _ _ 3 poor poor ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 amod _ _ 4 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 amod _ _ 9 time time NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 ago ago ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 12 such such ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 bad bad ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 inflammation inflammation NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj _ _ 15 in in ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 her her PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 nmod _ _ 18 that that SCONJ IN _ 22 mark _ _ 19 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 20 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 22 aux _ _ 21 have have AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 22 aux _ _ 22 gone go VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 17 acl:relcl _ _ 23 blind blind ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 xcomp _ _ 24 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 26 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 27 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 28 cop _ _ 28 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 9 acl:relcl _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 33 det _ _ 32 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 amod _ _ 33 herb herb NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 36 nsubj _ _ 36 cured cure VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 33 acl:relcl _ _ 37 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 obj _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 36 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | past | my poor daughter | | | | time | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **go** | would · perfect | daughter | daughter's eyes *not said here* | | | | blind *property* | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | | 3 | **not** **is** | past · perfect | such bad inflammation in daughter's eyes | a short time *not said here* | | | | able *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **find** | to-infinitive | such bad inflammation in daughter's eyes *not said here* | the magic herb | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herb=Topic | | 5 | **cure** | past | the magic herb | daughter | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer she=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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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 124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/124/) - next →: [sentence 126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/126/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 32](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/32/)