The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 131

‘If I am not much mistaken,’ said he, ‘there is some mysterious connection between our misfortunes, but how to find the key to the riddle is the question.’

Who acts: I, hope, mysterious connection, key · What happens: not be, say, be, find · To what, where: question · 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, hope, mysterious connection, key), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
2	If	if	SCONJ	_	7 mistaken	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 mistaken	nsubj
4	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mistaken	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 mistaken	advmod
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 mistaken	advmod
7	mistaken	mistaken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mistaken	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 mistaken	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 is	punct
14	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	15 is	expl
15	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 said	conj
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 connection	det
17	mysterious	mysterious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 connection	amod
18	connection	connection	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 is	nsubj
19	between	between	ADP	_	21 misfortunes	case
20	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 misfortunes	nmod:poss
21	misfortunes	misfortune	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 connection	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 find	cc
24	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 find	advmod
25	to	to	PART	_	26 find	mark
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 said	conj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 key	det
28	key	key	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 question	nsubj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 riddle	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 riddle	det
31	riddle	riddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 key	nmod
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 question	cop
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 question	det
34	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a condition, not said to happen	present	I			mistaken property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	hope				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	be	present	some mysterious connection between our misfortunes		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	find	to-infinitive	hope not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
5	is a	present	the key to the riddle	the question			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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