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title: At last there came a foreign doctor, who declared that the Golden Bl… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At last there came a foreign doctor, who declared that the Golden Blackbird alone could cure the sick man. Who acts: foreign doctor, Golden Blackbird. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Blackbird, sentence 3

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At last there came a foreign doctor, who declared that the Golden Blackbird alone could cure the sick man.

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**Who acts:** foreign doctor, Golden Blackbird · **What happens:** come, declare, cure · **To what, where:** last, sick man · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Blackbird. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign doctor, Golden Blackbird), 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:pg7277:21:3
# text = At last there came a foreign doctor, who declared that the Golden Blackbird alone could cure the sick man.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	_
3	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	4	expl	_	_
4	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	foreign	foreign	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	doctor	doctor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	declared	declare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	Blackbird	Blackbird	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	ccomp	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	sick	sick	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | a foreign doctor |  |  | last; there |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at last=Location |
| 2 | **declare** *speech: other* | past | a foreign doctor |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **cure** | could | the Golden Blackbird | the sick man |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer man=Source |

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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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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