The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 136

Not far from this room is a large hall where he is in the habit of feasting with his companions.

Who acts: large hall, habit · What happens: be, feast · To what, where: large hall, habit

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 (large hall, habit), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 far	advmod
2	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 hall	advmod
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 room	case
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 room	det
5	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 far	obl
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 hall	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 hall	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 hall	amod
9	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 habit	nsubj
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 habit	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 habit	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 habit	cop
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 habit	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 habit	det
15	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
16	of	of	SCONJ	_	17 feasting	mark
17	feasting	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 habit	acl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 companions	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 companions	nmod:poss
20	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 feasting	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 habit	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a large hall		far property	tree rules
2	is	present	a large hall		the habit		tree rules
3	feast	gerund	the habit not said here			with ‘'s companions	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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