The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 17
‘I do not know what they may contain, but as they are of no use to me, you are welcome to have them for a trifle.’
Who acts: I, Caliph, you · What happens: not know, contain, be, have · To what, where: me, Caliph · 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 (I, Caliph, you), 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 | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 contain | obj |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 contain | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 contain | aux |
| 9 | contain | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 welcome | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 welcome | cc |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 use | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 use | cop |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 use | case |
| 16 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 17 use | det |
| 17 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 welcome | advcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 me | case |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 use | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 use | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 welcome | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 welcome | cop |
| 23 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 know | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 have | mark |
| 25 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 welcome | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 have | obj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 trifle | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 trifle | det |
| 29 | trifle | trifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 have | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 31 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | contain | may | Caliph | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | Caliph | me | of no use | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is | present | you | welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | to-infinitive | you not said here | Caliph | for a trifle | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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