The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 144

When they were outside the door the Caliph said: ‘Grand Vizier, this is a tiresome business.

Who acts: Caliph, this · What happens: be, say · To what, where: door, tiresome business · 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 (Caliph, this), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 were	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 were	nsubj
3	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 said	ccomp
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 door	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 door	det
6	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 were	obl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Caliph	det
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	:	:	PUNCT	_	13 Vizier	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 Vizier	punct
12	Grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Vizier	amod
13	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 business	punct
15	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 business	nsubj
16	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 business	cop
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 business	det
18	tiresome	tiresome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 business	amod
19	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Vizier	appos
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	be	past	Caliph		the door	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme outside door=Location
2	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a	present	this	a tiresome business		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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