The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 161
‘And what kind of word did you give them?’ asked another old sorcerer.
Who acts: you · What happens: give, ask · To what, where: doings, old sorcerer · 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 (you), 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 | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 did | cc |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 kind | det |
| 4 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 did | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 word | case |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 kind | nmod |
| 7 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 give | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 give | nsubj |
| 9 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 give | iobj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 give | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 sorcerer | det |
| 15 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 sorcerer | amod |
| 16 | sorcerer | sorcerer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · do-support | you | doings = doing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | another old sorcerer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent sorcerer=Recipient clause=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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