The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 109
As soon as it saw the Caliph and his Vizier--who had crept up meanwhile--it gave vent to a joyful cry.
Who acts: chamber, Caliph · What happens: see, creep up, give · To what, where: Caliph, vent, joyful cry
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 (chamber, Caliph), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 saw | mark |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Vizier | cc |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Caliph | conj |
| 11 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 14 crept | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 crept | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 crept | aux |
| 14 | crept | creep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 Caliph | acl:relcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 crept | compound:prt |
| 16 | meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 14 crept | advmod |
| 17 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 19 gave | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 gave | nsubj |
| 19 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 20 | vent | vent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 cry | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 cry | det |
| 23 | joyful | joyful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 cry | amod |
| 24 | cry | cry | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 gave | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | chamber | the Caliph and sound's Vizier | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer caliph=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | creep up | past · perfect | the Caliph and sound's Vizier | meanwhile property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | chamber | vent | a joyful cry | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent vent=Theme to cry=Recipient |
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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