The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 108
Big tears rolled from its large round eyes, and in a hoarse voice it uttered its complaints through its crooked beak.
Who acts: Big tears, chamber · What happens: roll, utter, complain · To what, where: Big tears, large round eyes, complaints, hoarse voice
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 (Big tears, chamber), 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 | Big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tears | amod |
| 2 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | rolled | roll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 tears | acl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 eyes | case |
| 5 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 7 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eyes | amod |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rolled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 uttered | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 uttered | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uttered | obl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 uttered | nsubj |
| 16 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 complaints | nmod:poss |
| 18 | complaints | complaint | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 uttered | obj |
| 19 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 beak | case |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 beak | nmod:poss |
| 21 | crooked | crooked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 beak | amod |
| 22 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 uttered | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roll | participle | Big tears not said here | chamber's large round eyes | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from eye=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | utter speech: other | past | Big tears | chamber's complaints | a hoarse voice | through chamber's crooked beak | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent complaint=Topic | ||
| 3 | complain | chamber | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=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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