The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 110

It gently wiped the tears from its eyes with its spotted brown wings, and to the great amazement of the two visitors, addressed them in good human Arabic.

Who acts: chamber · What happens: wipe, spot, address, amaze · To what, where: tears, eyes, good human Arabic, two visitors

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), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wiped	nsubj
2	gently	gently	ADV	_	3 wiped	advmod
3	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tears	det
5	tears	tear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wiped	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 eyes	case
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 eyes	nmod:poss
8	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tears	nmod
9	with	with	ADP	_	13 wings	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 wings	nmod:poss
11	spotted	spot	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 wings	amod
12	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 wings	amod
13	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eyes	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 addressed	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 addressed	cc
16	to	to	ADP	_	19 amazement	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 amazement	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 amazement	amod
19	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 addressed	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 visitors	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 visitors	det
22	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 visitors	nummod
23	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 amazement	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 amazement	punct
25	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wiped	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 addressed	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	30 Arabic	case
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Arabic	amod
29	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 Arabic	amod
30	Arabic	Arabic	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 addressed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 wiped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	wipe	past	chamber	the tears	chamber's eyes with chamber's spotted brown wings	gently property	vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent tear=Theme from eye=Trajectory
2	spot	participle					vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»
3	address	past	chamber not said here	tears = tear	good human Arabic	to the great amazement of the two visitors	vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination
4	amaze			the two visitors			nom amazement «feeling transitive»: of=patient

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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