The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 13

The Caliph and his Vizier inspected everything, and the Caliph chose some handsome pistols for himself and Mansor, and a jewelled comb for the Vizier’s wife.

Who acts: Caliph · What happens: inspect, choose, jewell · To what, where: everything, handsome pistols

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), 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 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 inspected	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Vizier	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 Vizier	nmod:poss
5	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caliph	conj
6	inspected	inspect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 inspected	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 chose	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 chose	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Caliph	det
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 chose	nsubj
12	chose	choose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 inspected	conj
13	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 pistols	det
14	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pistols	amod
15	pistols	pistol	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 chose	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 pistols	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 Mansor	cc
19	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 himself	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 comb	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 comb	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 comb	det
23	jewelled	jewell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 comb	amod
24	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 chose	obl
25	for	for	ADP	_	29 wife	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Vizier	det
27	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 wife	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Vizier	case
29	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 comb	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 inspected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inspect	past	the Caliph and slave's Vizier	everything		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme
2	choose	past	the Caliph	some handsome pistols	for slave; a jewelled comb for the Vizier's wife obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent pistol=Theme for himself=Beneficiary
3	jewell	participle				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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