The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 166

When they reached it the Caliph turned to the owl, and said with much feeling: ‘Deliverer of my friend and myself, as a proof of my eternal gratitude, accept me as your husband.’

Who acts: storks, Caliph, Deliverer · What happens: reach, turn, say, accept, proof · To what, where: pace, owl, me, eternal gratitude · 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, Caliph, Deliverer), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	3 reached	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	nsubj
3	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	advcl
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 reached	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Caliph	det
6	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 owl	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 owl	det
10	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 said	cc
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 feeling	case
15	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 feeling	amod
16	feeling	feeling	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 Deliverer	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	19 Deliverer	punct
19	Deliverer	Deliverer	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 accept	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 friend	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 friend	nmod:poss
22	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Deliverer	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 myself	cc
24	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 friend	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 proof	punct
26	as	as	ADP	_	28 proof	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 proof	det
28	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 Deliverer	appos
29	of	of	ADP	_	32 gratitude	case
30	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 gratitude	nmod:poss
31	eternal	eternal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 gratitude	amod
32	gratitude	gratitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 proof	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 accept	punct
34	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
35	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 accept	obj
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 husband	case
37	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 husband	nmod:poss
38	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 accept	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reach	past	storks = stork	pace			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	turn	past	the Caliph		the owl		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to owl=Trajectory
3	say speech: assert	past	the Caliph not said here			with much feeling	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	accept	infinitive	Deliverer of my friend	me		as your husband	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Theme as husband=Attribute
5	proof			my eternal gratitude			nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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