The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 118

When the Caliph had ended, the owl thanked him and said: ‘You hear my story, and own that I am no less unfortunate than yourselves.

Who acts: Caliph, owl, You, I · What happens: end, thank, say, hear, be · To what, where: companion, story · 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 (Caliph, owl, You, I), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 ended	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Caliph	det
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 ended	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ended	aux
5	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 thanked	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ended	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 owl	det
8	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 thanked	nsubj
9	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 thanked	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 said	cc
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 thanked	conj
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 hear	punct
15	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 hear	nsubj
16	hear	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 story	nmod:poss
18	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hear	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 own	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 own	cc
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hear	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 unfortunate	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 unfortunate	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 unfortunate	cop
25	no	no	ADV	_	26 less	advmod
26	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	27 unfortunate	advmod
27	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 own	advcl
28	than	than	ADP	_	29 yourselves	case
29	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 unfortunate	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 thanked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	end	past · perfect	the Caliph				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	thank speech: thank	past	the owl		companion		vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the owl not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	hear	present	You	my story			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
5	is	present	I			than yourselves; less, unfortunate property	tree rules

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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