The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 159
In one of these bad men the two recognised the pedlar who had sold the magic powder.
Who acts: two · What happens: recognise, sell · To what, where: pedlar
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 (two), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 one | case |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 recognised | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 men | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 men | det |
| 5 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 men | amod |
| 6 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 recognised | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 two | det |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 recognised | nsubj |
| 9 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 pedlar | det |
| 11 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recognised | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 sold | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sold | aux |
| 14 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pedlar | acl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 powder | det |
| 16 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 powder | amod |
| 17 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sold | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the two | the pedlar | in one; of this bad men | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pedlar=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | sell | past · perfect · passive | the pedlar | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient powder=Theme |
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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