The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 14
Just as the pedlar was about to close his box, the Caliph noticed a small drawer, and asked if there was anything else in it for sale.
Who acts: pedlar, Caliph, anything · What happens: be, close, notice, ask · To what, where: box, small drawer
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 (pedlar, Caliph, anything), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 about | advmod |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 about | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pedlar | det |
| 4 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 about | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 close | mark |
| 8 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 about | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 box | nmod:poss |
| 10 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 close | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 noticed | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Caliph | det |
| 13 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | nsubj |
| 14 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 about | parataxis |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 drawer | det |
| 16 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 drawer | amod |
| 17 | drawer | drawer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 noticed | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 asked | cc |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 noticed | conj |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 was | mark |
| 22 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 23 was | expl |
| 23 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 was | nsubj |
| 25 | else | else | ADV | _ | 24 anything | advmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 it | case |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 anything | nmod |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 sale | case |
| 29 | sale | sale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 anything | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the pedlar | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | close | to-infinitive | the pedlar not said here | slave's box | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Patient | ||||
| 3 | notice | past | the Caliph | a small drawer | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer drawer=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Caliph not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | anything | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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