The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 116

The screech owl begged him to relate it, and the Caliph accordingly told him what we already know.

Who acts: screech owl, Caliph, we · What happens: beg, relate, tell, know · To what, where: companion, owl · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (screech owl, Caliph, we), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	screech	screech	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 owl	compound
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 relate	mark
7	relate	relate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 relate	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 told	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Caliph	det
12	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 told	nsubj
13	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	14 told	advmod
14	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 begged	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 told	iobj
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 know	obj
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
18	already	already	ADV	_	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 told	ccomp
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the screech owl		companion		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	relate not said to happen	to-infinitive	the screech owl not said here	owl			vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	past	the Caliph		companion	accordingly property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	know	present	we				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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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