--- title: 'Alas! your majesty,' he said, when he had finished, 'the wound is b… — The Orange Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: 'Alas! your majesty,' he said, when he had finished, 'the wound is beyond the power of man to heal; but though I cannot cure it, I can at least deaden the pain, and enable you to walk without so much suffering.' Who acts: land, wound, I, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, wound, I, you), 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:pg3027:37:32 # text = 'Alas! your majesty,' he said, when he had finished, 'the wound is beyond the power of man to heal; but though I cannot cure it, I can at least deaden the pain, and enable you to walk without so much suffering.' 1 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 Alas alas INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 3 ! ! PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ 4 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 majesty majesty NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 8 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 9 nsubj _ _ 9 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 14 advmod _ _ 12 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 13 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux _ _ 14 finished finish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 15 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 16 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 wound wound NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 20 beyond beyond ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obl _ _ 23 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 24 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 conj _ _ 25 to to PART TO _ 26 mark _ _ 26 heal heal VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 24 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ; ; PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 28 but but CCONJ CC _ 40 cc _ _ 29 though though SCONJ IN _ 33 mark _ _ 30 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 33 nsubj _ _ 31 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 33 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 32 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 33 advmod _ _ 33 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 40 advcl _ _ 34 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 33 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 35 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 36 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 40 nsubj _ _ 37 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 40 aux _ _ 38 at at ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 least least ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 40 obl _ _ 40 deaden deaden VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 pain pain NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 45 enable enable VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|Typo=Yes|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 46 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 45 obj _ _ 47 to to PART TO _ 48 mark _ _ 48 walk walk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 45 xcomp _ _ 49 without without ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 50 so so ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 much much ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 52 amod _ _ 52 suffering suffering NOUN NN Number=Sing 48 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 54 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | land | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **finish** | past · perfect | land | | | | | | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | | 3 | **is** | present | the wound | | | | | beyond the power and man | tree rules | | 4 | **heal** | to-infinitive | the wound *not said here* | | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | | 5 | **not** **cure** | can | I | majesty | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source | | 6 | **deaden** | can | I | the pain | | least | | | tree rules | | 7 | **enable** | present | land *not said here* | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **walk** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | without much suffering | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/33/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 37](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/37/)