The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 115
You will know our helplessness when you have heard our story.’
Who acts: You · What happens: know, hear · To what, where: helplessness, story
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 helplessness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | helplessness | helplessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 heard | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 heard | aux |
| 9 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | parataxis |
| 10 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 story | nmod:poss |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 heard | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | future | You | our helplessness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer helplessness=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | present · perfect | you | our story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus |
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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