The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 149
I call it buying a pig in a poke.’
Who acts: I · What happens: call, buy · To what, where: Highness, pig, poke · 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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 call | nsubj |
| 2 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 call | obj |
| 4 | buying | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 call | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 pig | det |
| 6 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buying | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 poke | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 poke | det |
| 9 | poke | poke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buying | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 call | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | present | I | Highness | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | gerund | I not said here | a pig | a poke | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=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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