The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 138

They tell each other all about their evil deeds, and possibly the magic word which you have forgotten may be mentioned.’

Who acts: rooms · What happens: tell, forget, mention · To what, where: each, magic word · 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 (rooms), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tell	nsubj
2	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	2 tell	obj
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 each	fixed
5	all	all	ADV	_	9 deeds	advmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	9 deeds	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 deeds	nmod:poss
8	evil	evil	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 deeds	amod
9	deeds	deed	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tell	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 mentioned	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 mentioned	cc
12	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	22 mentioned	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 word	det
14	magic	magic	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 word	compound
15	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 mentioned	nsubj:pass
16	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 forgotten	nsubj:pass
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 forgotten	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 forgotten	aux
19	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 word	acl:relcl
20	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 mentioned	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 mentioned	aux:pass
22	mentioned	mention	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 tell	advcl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	present	rooms = room	each	about rooms's evil deeds	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent each=Recipient about deed=Topic
2	forget	present · perfect · passive		the magic word		tree rules
3	mention speech: other	may · passive		the magic word	possibly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic

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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