The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 143
The storks seemed rather taken aback by this suggestion, and the Caliph beckoned to his Vizier to retire and consult with him.
Who acts: suggestion, Caliph · What happens: take, beckon, retire, consult · To what, where: storks, Vizier
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 (suggestion, Caliph), 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 storks | det |
| 2 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | aux |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 5 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | aback | aback | ADV | _ | 5 taken | advmod |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 suggestion | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 suggestion | det |
| 9 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 taken | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beckoned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 beckoned | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Caliph | det |
| 13 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beckoned | nsubj |
| 14 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 taken | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 Vizier | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 Vizier | nmod:poss |
| 17 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 beckoned | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 retire | mark |
| 19 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 beckoned | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 consult | cc |
| 21 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 retire | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 consult | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | this suggestion | the storks | aback property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | beckon | past | the Caliph | command's Vizier | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to vizier=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | retire | to-infinitive | the Caliph not said here | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | consult | infinitive | the Caliph not said here | with command | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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