The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 146
‘Indeed!’ said the Vizier; ‘so that when I go home my wife may scratch my eyes out!
Who acts: Vizier, I · What happens: say, go, scratch out · To what, where: wife, eyes · 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 (Vizier, I), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Indeed | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Vizier | det |
| 7 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratch | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 scratch | punct |
| 10 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 14 go | mark |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 so | fixed |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 go | advmod |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 scratch | advcl |
| 15 | home | home | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obj |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 scratch | aux |
| 19 | scratch | scratch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | conj |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 21 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 scratch | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 scratch | advmod |
| 23 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Vizier | indeed property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | present | I | my wife | home property | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wife=Theme | |||
| 3 | scratch out | may | the Vizier not said here | my eyes | out property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=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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