The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 125
Whilst I was fainting with terror he transported me here, and cried to me with his awful voice: “There shall you remain, lonely and hideous, despised even by the brutes, till the end of your days, or till some one of his own free will asks you to be his wife.
Who acts: I, father, you · What happens: faint, transport, cry, remain, despise, ask · To what, where: me, you, wife · 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 (I, father, you), 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 | Whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 4 fainting | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 fainting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fainting | aux |
| 4 | fainting | faint | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 transported | advcl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 terror | case |
| 6 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fainting | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 transported | nsubj |
| 8 | transported | transport | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 transported | obj |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 transported | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 transported | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cried | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 18 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 voice | amod |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 remain | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 remain | punct |
| 22 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 remain | expl |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 remain | aux |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 remain | nsubj |
| 25 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 lonely | punct |
| 27 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 remain | parataxis |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hideous | cc |
| 29 | hideous | hideous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 lonely | conj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 despised | punct |
| 31 | despised | despise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 remain | conj |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 35 brutes | advmod |
| 33 | by | by | ADP | _ | 35 brutes | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 brutes | det |
| 35 | brutes | brute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 despised | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 end | punct |
| 37 | till | till | ADP | _ | 39 end | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 end | det |
| 39 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 despised | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 days | case |
| 41 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 days | nmod:poss |
| 42 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 end | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 one | punct |
| 44 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 47 one | cc |
| 45 | till | till | ADP | _ | 47 one | case |
| 46 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 47 one | det |
| 47 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 transported | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 free | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 free | nmod:poss |
| 50 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 free | amod |
| 51 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 one | nmod |
| 52 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 53 asks | aux |
| 53 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 one | acl:relcl |
| 54 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 53 asks | obj |
| 55 | to | to | PART | _ | 58 wife | mark |
| 56 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 58 wife | cop |
| 57 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 wife | nmod:poss |
| 58 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 asks | ccomp |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 transported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | faint | past · progressive | I | with terror | vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | transport | past | father | me | here | till some one of father's own free | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus i=Experiencer | ||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | father not said here | me | with father's awful voice | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 4 | remain in a quote | shall | you | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | despise in a quote | participle | you not said here | till the end of your days | by the brutes | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask in a quote | future | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||||
| 7 | is a not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | father's wife | 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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