The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 162

‘A very difficult Latin word; it is “Mutabor.”’

Who acts: kind · What happens: be · To what, where: Mutabor

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 (kind), 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	_	6 word	punct
2	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 word	det
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 difficult	advmod
4	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
5	Latin	Latin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 word	amod
6	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 Mutabor	punct
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 Mutabor	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 Mutabor	cop
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Mutabor	punct
11	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 word	appos
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 Mutabor	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 Mutabor	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 word	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	kind	Mutabor					tree rules

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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