The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 141

‘Speak, speak!’ cried Chasid; ‘command, I will gladly do whatever you wish!’

Who acts: command, you · What happens: speak, cry, do, wish · To what, where: whatever · 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 (command, you), 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	_	2 Speak	punct
2	Speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 speak	punct
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Speak	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Speak	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Speak	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	flat
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
10	‘	‘	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 command	det
11	command	command	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 do	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 command	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 do	nsubj
14	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 do	aux
15	gladly	gladly	ADV	_	16 do	advmod
16	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 cried	parataxis
17	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 do	obj
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 wish	nsubj
19	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 whatever	acl:relcl
20	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct
21	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 do	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	speak speech: other	infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	speak speech: other	infinitive				vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cry speech: express	past				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do	future	‘ command	whatever	gladly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whatever=Eventuality
5	wish	present	you			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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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