The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 152

She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most probably the magicians would meet that very night.

Who acts: magician, Caliph, most magicians · What happens: own, not arrive, meet

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 (magician, Caliph, most magicians), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 owned	nsubj
2	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 arrived	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 arrived	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	aux
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 arrived	advmod
7	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 arrived	aux
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 owned	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	12 time	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 time	det
11	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 time	amod
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 arrived	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 meet	punct
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 meet	mark
15	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	18 magicians	amod
16	probably	probably	ADV	_	18 magicians	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 magicians	det
18	magicians	magician	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 meet	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 meet	aux
20	meet	meet	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 arrived	conj
21	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	23 night	det
22	very	very	ADV	_	23 night	advmod
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 meet	obl:unmarked
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 owned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	own	past	magician		tree rules
2	not arrive	could · perfect	Caliph	time	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	meet	would	the most magicians	night	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/152/