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title: In short, it cures all sick persons of the most mortal diseases; and… — The Blue Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: In short, it cures all sick persons of the most mortal diseases; and if the patient is dying it will recover him immediately and restore him to perfect health; and this is done after the easiest manner in the world, which is by the patient’s smelling the apple.” Who acts: apple, patient, world. A se
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# The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1, sentence 61

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In short, it cures all sick persons of the most mortal diseases; and if the patient is dying it will recover him immediately and restore him to perfect health; and this is done after the easiest manner in the world, which is by the patient’s smelling the apple.”

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**Who acts:** apple, patient, world · **What happens:** cure, die, recover, restore, do, be · **To what, where:** sick persons, short, apple, patient, this, world

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This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apple, patient, world), 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:pg503:49:61
# text = In short, it cures all sick persons of the most mortal diseases; and if the patient is dying it will recover him immediately and restore him to perfect health; and this is done after the easiest manner in the world, which is by the patient’s smelling the apple.”
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	short	short	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	cures	cure	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	csubj	_	_
6	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	8	det	_	_
7	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
11	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	12	advmod	_	_
12	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	diseases	disease	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	dying	die	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	restore	restore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	conj	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
30	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	health	health	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
34	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
37	after	after	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	easiest	easy	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	40	amod	_	_
40	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	in	in	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	49	nsubj	_	_
46	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	49	cop	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	patient	patient	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	’s	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	51	aux	_	_
51	smelling	smell	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	apple	apple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	51	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	51	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cure** | present | apple | all sick persons of the mortal diseases |  | short |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer person=Source |
| 2 | **die** *a condition, not said to happen* | present · progressive | the patient | apple |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **recover** | future | apple *not said here* | patient |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **restore** | infinitive | apple *not said here* | patient |  |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 5 | **do** | present · passive |  | this |  | the world and the patient | after the easiest manner |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 6 | **is** | present | the world and the patient |  |  |  |  | by the patient | tree rules |
| 7 | **smell** | present · progressive |  | the apple |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus |

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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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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