The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 153
She then proceeded to lead the two storks to the chamber.
Who acts: magician · What happens: proceed, lead · To what, where: two storks, chamber
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), 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 | 3 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 proceeded | advmod |
| 3 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lead | mark |
| 5 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 proceeded | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 storks | det |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 storks | nummod |
| 8 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 lead | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 chamber | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chamber | det |
| 11 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lead | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | magician | then | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lead | to-infinitive | magician not said here | the two storks | the chamber | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stork=Theme to chamber=Destination |
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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