The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 100
Chasid and his companion wandered along the passages seeking a dry spot, when suddenly Mansor stood still.
Who acts: Chasid, passages, Mansor · What happens: wander, seek, stand · To what, where: passages, dry spot
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chasid, passages, Mansor), 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chasid | Chasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 companion | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 companion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Chasid | conj |
| 5 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | along | along | ADP | _ | 8 passages | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 passages | det |
| 8 | passages | passage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wandered | obl |
| 9 | seeking | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 passages | acl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 spot | det |
| 11 | dry | dry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 spot | amod |
| 12 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seeking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stood | punct |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 stood | advmod |
| 15 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 16 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 stood | nsubj |
| 17 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wandered | conj |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 17 stood | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Chasid and ruin's companion | the passages | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along passage=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seek | gerund | the passages not said here | a dry spot | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stand | past | Mansor | still | suddenly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 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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