The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 139
‘Oh, dearest Princess!’ exclaimed the Caliph, ‘say, when does he come, and where is the hall?’
Who acts: dearest Princess, word · What happens: exclaim, say, come, be · To what, where: Caliph, hall · 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 (dearest Princess, word), 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 | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Princess | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 Princess | amod |
| 5 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Princess | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Caliph | det |
| 10 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 say | punct |
| 13 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 come | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 come | advmod |
| 16 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 come | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 come | nsubj |
| 18 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 say | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hall | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 hall | cc |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 hall | advmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 hall | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 hall | det |
| 24 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 hall | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 hall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | dearest Princess | the Caliph | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | come | present · do-support | word | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | the hall | 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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