The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 16
‘I got these two articles from a merchant who had picked them up in the street at Mecca,’ said the pedlar.
Who acts: I, merchant · What happens: get, pick up, say · To what, where: two articles, merchant, articles, street, pedlar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I, merchant), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 said | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 articles | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 articles | nummod |
| 6 | articles | article | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 merchant | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 merchant | det |
| 9 | merchant | merchant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 articles | nmod |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 picked | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 picked | aux |
| 12 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 merchant | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 picked | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 picked | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 street | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 street | det |
| 17 | street | street | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 picked | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 Mecca | case |
| 19 | Mecca | Mecca | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 picked | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 22 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 pedlar | det |
| 24 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 said | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | I | this two articles | a merchant | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent article=Theme from merchant=Source | |||
| 2 | pick up | past · perfect | a merchant | articles = article | the street | at Mecca | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the pedlar | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent pedlar=Topic |
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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