The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 135

‘The Magician who has made us both miserable,’ said she, ‘comes once a month to these ruins.

Who acts: woman, ‘ · What happens: make, say, come · To what, where: Magician, ruins · 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 (woman, ‘), 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	_	6 made	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Magician	det
3	Magician	Magician	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj:pass
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 made	nsubj
5	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 made	aux
6	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 said	ccomp
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	9 miserable	advmod
9	miserable	miserable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 made	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 said	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 comes	punct
15	‘	‘	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 comes	nsubj
16	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 said	ccomp
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	16 comes	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 month	det
19	month	month	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 once	obl:unmarked
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ruins	case
21	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 ruins	det
22	ruins	ruin	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 comes	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	present · perfect · passive		the Magician		miserable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary we=Product
2	say speech: assert	past	woman				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	come	present	‘		this ruins	once property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ruin=Initial_Location

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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