The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 169

‘Mutabor!’ they both cried, and in an instant they were once more transformed.

Who acts: Mutabor, storks · What happens: cry, transform · To what, where: instant

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 (Mutabor, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mutabor	punct
2	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Mutabor	punct
4	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Mutabor	punct
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	nsubj
6	both	both	ADV	_	7 cried	advmod
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 transformed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 transformed	cc
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 instant	case
11	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 instant	det
12	instant	instant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 transformed	obl
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 transformed	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 transformed	aux
15	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	17 transformed	advmod
16	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	17 transformed	advmod
17	transformed	transform	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 cried	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Mutabor					both property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	transform	past · passive	storks = stork			a instant		once property	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=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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