The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 168
Three times the storks bowed their long necks to the sun, which was just rising over the mountains.
Who acts: storks, sun · What happens: bow, rise · To what, where: long necks, sun, mountains
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, sun), 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 | Three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 times | nummod |
| 2 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 storks | det |
| 4 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | nsubj |
| 5 | bowed | bow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 necks | nmod:poss |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 necks | amod |
| 8 | necks | neck | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 bowed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sun | det |
| 11 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bowed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rising | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 rising | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 rising | aux |
| 15 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 rising | advmod |
| 16 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sun | acl |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 mountains | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mountains | det |
| 19 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 rising | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bow | past | the storks | storks's long necks | the sun | time | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent neck=Topic to sun=Recipient | ||
| 2 | rise | past · progressive | the sun | the mountains | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over mountain=Location |
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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