The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 140

The owl paused a moment and then said: ‘Do not think me unkind, but I can only grant your request on one condition.’

Who acts: owl, I, your · What happens: pause, say, not think, grant, request · To what, where: me, request, one condition · 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 (owl, I, your), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	nsubj
3	paused	pause	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 paused	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 said	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 said	advmod
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 paused	conj
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
11	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 think	advmod
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 said	ccomp
14	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 think	obj
15	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 think	xcomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 grant	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 grant	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 grant	nsubj
19	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grant	aux
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 grant	advmod
21	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 think	conj
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 request	nmod:poss
23	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grant	obj
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 condition	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 condition	nummod
26	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grant	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 paused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pause	past	the owl			moment		vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the owl not said here			then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not think speech: other	infinitive · do-support		me			unkind property	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot i=Theme
4	grant	can	I	your request	one condition			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent request=Theme
5	request		your					nom request «communication transitive»: poss=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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