--- title: Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said t… — The Violet Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said that the only thing to cure him was the flesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only man who could get it was a man with a strange mark on his chest. Who acts: Sultan, wise men, only thing, only man. A sentence of «The Violet F --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/66/) [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 Violet Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/) / [The Story of Hassebu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/) / 66 # The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 66 Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said that the only thing to cure him was the flesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only man who could get it was a man with a strange mark on his chest. **Who acts:** Sultan, wise men, only thing, only man, thing · **What happens:** be, say, cure, get · **To what, where:** man, flesh · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan, wise men, only thing, only man), 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:pg641:30:66 # text = Now the Sultan of the city was very ill, and all the wise men said that the only thing to cure him was the flesh of the King of the Snakes, and that the only man who could get it was a man with a strange mark on his chest. 1 Now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 9 advmod _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 Sultan Sultan PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nmod _ _ 7 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 cop _ _ 8 very very ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 9 ill ill ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 11 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 12 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 15 det:predet _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 wise wise ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 15 amod _ _ 15 men man NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 said say VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 conj _ _ 17 that that SCONJ IN _ 26 mark _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 19 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 20 amod _ _ 20 thing thing NOUN NN Number=Sing 26 nsubj _ _ 21 to to PART TO _ 22 mark _ _ 22 cure cure VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 acl _ _ 23 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 obj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 26 cop _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 flesh flesh NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 ccomp _ _ 27 of of ADP IN _ 29 case _ _ 28 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 King King PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 nmod _ _ 30 of of ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 Snakes snake NOUN NNS Number=Plur 29 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 35 that that SCONJ IN _ 41 mark _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 38 det _ _ 37 only only ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 39 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 41 nsubj _ _ 40 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 get get VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 9 conj _ _ 42 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 43 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 44 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 ccomp _ _ 46 with with ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 47 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 48 strange strange ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 49 amod _ _ 49 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ _ 50 on on ADP IN _ 52 case _ _ 51 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 52 nmod:poss _ _ 52 chest chest NOUN NN Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 53 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | past | the Sultan of the city | | | | now | ill *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | all wise men | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **cure** | to-infinitive | the only thing *not said here* | man | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer he=Source | | 4 | **is a** | past | the only thing | the flesh | | | | of the King of the Snakes | tree rules | | 5 | **get** | could | the only man | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **is a** | past | thing | a man | | | | with a strange mark on man's chest | tree rules | 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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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 65](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/65/) - next →: [sentence 67](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/67/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Hassebu](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/30/)