The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 155
When they reached it the owl advised them to keep very quiet.
Who acts: storks, owl · What happens: reach, advise, keep · To what, where: ray, storks
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 (storks, owl), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 advised | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 owl | det |
| 6 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 advised | nsubj |
| 7 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 advised | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 keep | mark |
| 10 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 advised | xcomp |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 quiet | advmod |
| 12 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 keep | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 advised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | storks = stork | ray | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | advise speech: other | past | the owl | storks = stork | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | keep not said to happen | to-infinitive | storks = stork not said here | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: 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.
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