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title: He sold not only all kinds of medicine, but also dealt in many stran… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He sold not only all kinds of medicine, but also dealt in many strange charms against witches and evil spirits. Who acts: doctor. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 17

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He sold not only all kinds of medicine, but also dealt in many strange charms against witches and evil spirits.

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**Who acts:** doctor · **What happens:** sell, deal · **To what, where:** kinds, many strange charms

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This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (doctor), 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:pg7277:31:17
# text = He sold not only all kinds of medicine, but also dealt in many strange charms against witches and evil spirits.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sold	sell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	only	only	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	medicine	medicine	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	also	also	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	dealt	deal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	charms	charm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	witches	witch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sell** | past | doctor | all kinds of medicine |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kind=Theme |
| 2 | **deal** | participle | doctor *not said here* |  |  | many strange charms against witches and evil spirits |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |

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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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