The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 123
My father--who is rather hasty--ordered him to be thrown downstairs.
Who acts: father · What happens: be, order, throw · To what, where: am
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 (father), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 hasty | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 hasty | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 hasty | cop |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 7 hasty | advmod |
| 7 | hasty | hasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 father | conj |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 2 father | punct |
| 9 | ordered | order | 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 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 thrown | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thrown | aux:pass |
| 13 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 14 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 13 thrown | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My father | hasty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | order | past | My father | am = a.m. | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | throw not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | My father not said here | downstairs property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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