The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 104
The Caliph, however, under whose stork’s breast a brave heart beat, tore himself away with the loss of a few feathers, and hurried down a dark passage.
What happens: hurry down · To what, where: dark passage
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Caliph | det |
| 2 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caliph | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 10 breast | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 however | punct |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 breast | case |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 stork | nmod:poss |
| 8 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 stork | case |
| 10 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Caliph | appos |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 beat | det |
| 12 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beat | amod |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | compound |
| 14 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 breast | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tore | punct |
| 16 | tore | tore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 beat | appos |
| 17 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 away | nsubj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 16 tore | acl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 loss | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loss | det |
| 21 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 away | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 feathers | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 feathers | det |
| 24 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 feathers | amod |
| 25 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 loss | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hurried | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 hurried | cc |
| 28 | hurried | hurry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 beat | parataxis |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 hurried | compound:prt |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 passage | det |
| 31 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 passage | amod |
| 32 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hurried | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Caliph | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hurry down | participle | a dark passage | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passage=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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