The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 12
He carried a box containing all manner of wares--strings of pearls, rings, richly mounted pistols, goblets, and combs.
Who acts: slave, box · What happens: carry, contain, mount · To what, where: box, manner
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 (slave, box), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 carried | nsubj |
| 2 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 box | det |
| 4 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 carried | obj |
| 5 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 box | acl |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 manner | det |
| 7 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 containing | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wares | case |
| 9 | wares | ware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 manner | nmod |
| 10 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 11 strings | punct |
| 11 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wares | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 pearls | case |
| 13 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 strings | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rings | punct |
| 15 | rings | ring | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 box | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pistols | punct |
| 17 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 18 mounted | advmod |
| 18 | mounted | mount | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 pistols | amod |
| 19 | pistols | pistol | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rings | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 goblets | punct |
| 21 | goblets | goblet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 pistols | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 combs | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 combs | cc |
| 24 | combs | comb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | slave | a box rings mounted pistols and goblets | combs obl | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a box rings mounted pistols and goblets not said here | all manner of wares and strings of pearls | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot manner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | mount | participle | richly property | vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme |
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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