The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 148

‘That’s just where it is,’ sighed the Caliph, whose wings drooped in a dejected manner; ‘how do you know she is young and lovely?

Who acts: That, you, Princess · What happens: be, sigh, droop, deject, know · To what, where: Caliph, wings, dejected manner · 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 (That, you, Princess), 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 where	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 where	nsubj
3	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 where	cop
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 where	advmod
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 where	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 where	cop
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sighed	punct
9	’	'	CCONJ	_	10 sighed	cc
10	sighed	sigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 where	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Caliph	det
12	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 sighed	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wings	punct
14	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	15 wings	nmod:poss
15	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 Caliph	appos
16	drooped	droop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 wings	acl
17	in	in	ADP	_	20 manner	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 manner	det
19	dejected	deject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 manner	amod
20	manner	manner	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 drooped	obl
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
22	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 know	punct
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	26 know	advmod
24	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 know	aux
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 know	nsubj
26	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sighed	conj
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 young	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 young	cop
29	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 know	ccomp
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lovely	cc
31	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 young	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 where	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	That			where property	tree rules
2	sigh	past	That not said here	the Caliph			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic
3	droop	participle		the Caliph's wings not said here	a dejected manner		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location
4	deject	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	know	present · do-support	you				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	is	present	Princess			young property	tree rules
7	be		Princess not said here				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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