---
title: None of my drugs will avail to cure you, but, if you are willing to… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: None of my drugs will avail to cure you, but, if you are willing to pay me handsomely, I can tell you how you may be cured.’ Who acts: None, you, I. 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.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/21/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/) / 21

# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs, sentence 21

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
None of my drugs will avail to cure you, but, if you are willing to pay me handsomely, I can tell you how you may be cured.’

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** None, you, I · **What happens:** avail, cure, be, pay, tell · **To what, where:** you, me · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (None, you, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**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:pg7277:31:21
# text = None of my drugs will avail to cure you, but, if you are willing to pay me handsomely, I can tell you how you may be cured.’
1	None	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	drugs	drug	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
5	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	avail	avail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
14	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	willing	willing	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	iobj	_	_
20	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
22	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	tell	tell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
25	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	24	iobj	_	_
26	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
27	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	cured	cure	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **avail** | future | None |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **cure** | to-infinitive | None *not said here* | you |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer you=Source |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | you |  |  |  |  | willing *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* |  | me |  |  | handsomely *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Asset |
| 5 | **tell** *speech: assert* | can | I |  | you |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient |
| 6 | **cure** | may · passive |  | you |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/20/)
- next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/22/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of Hok Lee and the Dwarfs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/31/)