--- title: When the doctor arrived, his patient was in a high fever, so he at o… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: When the doctor arrived, his patient was in a high fever, so he at once prescribed a mixture of powdered deer horns and dragon’s blood, and pills made from hare’s liver, these medicines to be taken at intervals. Who acts: doctor, patient. 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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 (doctor, patient), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:15:103 # text = When the doctor arrived, his patient was in a high fever, so he at once prescribed a mixture of powdered deer horns and dragon’s blood, and pills made from hare’s liver, these medicines to be taken at intervals. 1 When when SCONJ WRB _ 4 mark _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 doctor doctor NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 arrived arrive VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 5 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 patient patient NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 8 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 cop _ _ 9 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 11 high high ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 fever fever NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 14 so so ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 15 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 16 at at SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 17 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 18 advmod _ _ 18 prescribed prescribe VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 20 det _ _ 20 mixture mixture NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 22 powdered powder VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 amod _ _ 23 deer deer NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 compound _ _ 24 horns horn NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nmod _ _ 25 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 26 dragon dragon NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 27 ’s 's PART POS _ 26 case _ _ 28 blood blood NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 42 cc _ _ 31 pills pill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 32 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 31 acl _ _ 33 from from ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 34 hare hare NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 35 ’s 's PART POS _ 34 case _ _ 36 liver liver NOUN NN Number=Sing 32 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 39 det _ _ 39 medicines medicine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 40 to to PART TO _ 42 mark _ _ 41 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 taken take VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 18 conj _ _ 43 at at ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 intervals interval NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 12 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **arrive** | past | the doctor | | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **is** | past | doctor's patient | | | a high fever | | | tree rules | | 3 | **prescribe** | participle | doctor | a mixture of powdered deer horns and dragon's blood | | | | once *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **powder** | participle | | | | | | | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **make** | participle | | pills *not said here* | | hare's liver | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset from liver=Material | | 6 | **take** | to-infinitive · passive | | pills | | intervals | | this medicines *nsubj:pass* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: subject=Theme at interval=Asset | 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/100/) - next →: [sentence 102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/102/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/15/)