The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 133

I too feel sure of this, for in my earliest youth a wise woman foretold that a stork would bring me some great happiness, and I think I could tell you how we might save ourselves.’

Who acts: I, stork, we · What happens: feel, foretell, bring, think, tell, save · To what, where: wise woman, great happiness, me, you, ourselves · 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, stork, we), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 feel	nsubj
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 feel	advmod
3	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feel	xcomp
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 this	case
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 sure	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 youth	punct
8	for	for	ADP	_	12 youth	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 youth	case
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 youth	nmod:poss
11	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	12 youth	amod
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feel	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 woman	det
14	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 woman	amod
15	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 youth	appos
16	foretold	foretell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 woman	acl
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 bring	mark
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stork	det
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 bring	aux
21	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 foretold	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 bring	obj
23	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	25 happiness	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 happiness	amod
25	happiness	happiness	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 bring	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 think	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 think	cc
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 think	nsubj
29	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 feel	parataxis
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tell	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tell	aux
32	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 think	ccomp
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 tell	iobj
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	37 save	advmod
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 save	nsubj
36	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 save	aux
37	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tell	advcl
38	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 save	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	feel	present	I			sure property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	foretell	participle		a wise woman not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	bring	would	a stork	some great happiness	me		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination happiness=Theme
4	think speech: other	present	I				vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	tell speech: assert	could	I		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
6	save	might	we	ourselves			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Theme

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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