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title: After everyone had tried his own particular cure, and found it fail,… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: After everyone had tried his own particular cure, and found it fail, there came news of a wonderful doctor in some distant land who had healed the most astonishing diseases. Who acts: news, distant land. A sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37, with its dependency tree
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# The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 37, sentence 29

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After everyone had tried his own particular cure, and found it fail, there came news of a wonderful doctor in some distant land who had healed the most astonishing diseases.

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**Who acts:** news, distant land · **What happens:** try, find, come, heal, astonish · **To what, where:** own particular cure, cure, distant land, astonishing diseases

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This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news, distant land), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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:pg3027:37:29
# text = After everyone had tried his own particular cure, and found it fail, there came news of a wonderful doctor in some distant land who had healed the most astonishing diseases.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	everyone	everyone	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	4	obl	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	particular	particular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	cure	cure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	16	expl	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
17	news	news	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
26	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	healed	heal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	31	advmod	_	_
31	astonishing	astonish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **try** | past · perfect |  | Balancin's own particular cure |  |  | after everyone |  | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Eventuality |
| 2 | **find** | past |  | cure |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme fail=Attribute |
| 3 | **come** | past | news of a wonderful doctor |  |  | some distant land; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in land=Location |
| 4 | **heal** | past · perfect | some distant land | the astonishing diseases |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent disease=Patient |
| 5 | **astonish** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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.

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**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.

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