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The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 112

You are a good sign of my deliverance, for it was foretold me that a piece of good fortune should befall me through a stork.’

Who acts: You, piece, my · What happens: be, foretell, befall, deliver · To what, where: good sign, deliverance, me

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 (You, piece, my), 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

nsubjcopdetamodcasenmod:possnmodpunctmarknsubj:passaux:passconjobjmarkdetnsubjcaseamodnmodauxadvclobjcasedetoblpunctpunctrootYouPRONareAUXaDETgoodADJsignNOUNofADPmyPRONdeliveranceNOUN,PUNCTforSCONJitPRONwasAUXforetoldVERBmePRONthatSCONJaDETpieceNOUNofADPgoodADJfortuneNOUNshouldAUXbefallVERBmePRONthroughADPaDETstorkNOUN.PUNCT’PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1YouyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs5 signnsubj
2arebeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin5 signcop
3aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 signdet
4goodgoodADJDegree=Pos5 signamod
5signsignNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
6ofofADP_8 deliverancecase
7mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs8 deliverancenmod:poss
8deliverancedeliveranceNOUNNumber=Sing5 signnmod
9,,PUNCT_13 foretoldpunct
10forforSCONJ_13 foretoldmark
11ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 foretoldnsubj:pass
12wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 foretoldaux:pass
13foretoldforetellVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass5 signconj
14meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 foretoldobj
15thatthatSCONJ_22 befallmark
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art17 piecedet
17piecepieceNOUNNumber=Sing22 befallnsubj
18ofofADP_20 fortunecase
19goodgoodADJDegree=Pos20 fortuneamod
20fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing17 piecenmod
21shouldshouldAUXVerbForm=Fin22 befallaux
22befallbefallVERBVerbForm=Inf13 foretoldadvcl
23meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 befallobj
24throughthroughADP_26 storkcase
25aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art26 storkdet
26storkstorkNOUNNumber=Sing22 befallobl
27..PUNCT_5 signpunct
28’'PUNCT_5 signpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apresentYoua good signof my deliverancetree rules
2foretellpast · passivedeliverancevn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality
3befallshoulda piece of good fortunemethrough a storktree rules
4delivermynom deliverance «act transitive»: 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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