The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 164
As soon as the storks heard this they were nearly beside themselves with joy.
Who acts: storks · What happens: hear, be · To what, where: this · 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 (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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 heard | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storks | det |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 heard | nsubj |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 soon | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 heard | obj |
| 8 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 themselves | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 themselves | cop |
| 10 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 12 themselves | advmod |
| 11 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 themselves | case |
| 12 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 heard | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 joy | case |
| 14 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 heard | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the storks | this | with joy | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | storks = stork | beside storks = stork; nearly property | 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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