The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 156
Through the gap near which they stood they could with ease survey the whole of the large hall.
Who acts: storks · What happens: stand · To what, where: gap
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), 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 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 gap | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gap | det |
| 3 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 5 which | case |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 stood | obl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 stood | nsubj |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 could | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 stood | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 survey | case |
| 11 | ease | ease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 survey | compound |
| 12 | survey | survey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 whole | det |
| 14 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 survey | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hall | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hall | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hall | amod |
| 18 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whole | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | storks = stork | the gap | with ease survey | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through gap=Location |
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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