The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 150

They argued on for some time, but at length, when the Caliph saw plainly that his Vizier would rather remain a stork to the end of his days than marry the owl, he determined to fulfil the condition himself.

Who acts: Caliph, Vizier · What happens: argue on, see, remain, marry, determine, fulfil · To what, where: length, stork, owl, condition · 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, Vizier), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 argued	nsubj
2	argued	argue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	2 argued	compound:prt
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 argued	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 saw	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 saw	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 length	case
10	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 saw	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 length	punct
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 saw	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Caliph	det
14	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 saw	nsubj
15	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 argued	conj
16	plainly	plainly	ADV	_	15 saw	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 remain	mark
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Vizier	nmod:poss
19	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 remain	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 remain	aux
21	rather	rather	ADV	_	22 remain	advmod
22	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 saw	ccomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 stork	det
24	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remain	obj
25	to	to	ADP	_	27 end	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 end	det
27	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 remain	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 days	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 days	nmod:poss
30	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 end	nmod
31	than	than	SCONJ	_	32 marry	mark
32	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 remain	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 owl	det
34	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 marry	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 determined	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 determined	nsubj
37	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 argued	conj
38	to	to	PART	_	39 fulfil	mark
39	fulfil	fulfil	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 determined	xcomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 condition	det
41	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 fulfil	obj
42	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	39 fulfil	obl:unmarked
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 argued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	argue on speech: disagree	past	Caliph			time		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	see	past	the Caliph		length		plainly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	remain	would	pig's Vizier	a stork		to the end of pig's days		vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute
4	marry	infinitive	pig's Vizier not said here	the owl				vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent owl=Patient
5	determine	past	Vizier					vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	fulfil	to-infinitive	Vizier not said here	the condition			pig obl:unmarked	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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