The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 124

The wretch not long after managed to approach me under another form, and one day, when I was in the garden, and asked for some refreshment, he brought me--in the disguise of a slave--a draught which changed me at once to this horrid shape.

Who acts: I, father, draught · What happens: manage, approach, be, ask, bring, change · To what, where: wretch, me, form, garden, disguise

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 (I, father, draught), 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	2 wretch	det
2	wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 long	advmod
4	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 managed	advmod
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 managed	mark
6	managed	manage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wretch	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 approach	mark
8	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 managed	xcomp
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 approach	obj
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 form	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 form	det
12	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 approach	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 day	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 day	cc
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 day	nummod
16	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wretch	appos
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 garden	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 garden	advmod
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 garden	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 garden	cop
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 garden	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 garden	det
23	garden	garden	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 day	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 asked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 asked	cc
26	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 garden	parataxis
27	for	for	ADP	_	29 refreshment	case
28	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	29 refreshment	det
29	refreshment	refreshment	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 asked	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 brought	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 brought	nsubj
32	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 asked	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 brought	obj
34	--	--	PUNCT	_	37 disguise	punct
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 disguise	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 disguise	det
37	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 brought	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 slave	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 slave	det
40	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 disguise	nmod
41	--	--	PUNCT	_	43 draught	punct
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 draught	det
43	draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 disguise	conj
44	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 changed	nsubj
45	changed	change	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 draught	acl:relcl
46	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	45 changed	obj
47	at	at	ADP	_	48 once	case
48	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	45 changed	obl
49	to	to	ADP	_	52 shape	case
50	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	52 shape	det
51	horrid	horrid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 shape	amod
52	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 changed	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wretch	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	participle		the wretch not said here			long property	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	approach	to-infinitive		me		another form		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
3	is	past	I			the garden		tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past					for some refreshment	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	bring	past	father		me	the disguise of a slave and a draught		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination
6	change	past	a draught	me			to this horrid shape	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient

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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