The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 171
Who shall describe their surprise when they at last turned round and beheld standing before them a beautiful lady exquisitely dressed!
Who acts: storks · What happens: describe, turn round, behold, stand, dress, surprise · To what, where: surprise, beautiful lady
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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 describe | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 describe | aux |
| 3 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 describe | obj |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 10 turned | mark |
| 9 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 turned | amod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 describe | advcl |
| 11 | round | round | ADV | _ | 10 turned | advmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beheld | cc |
| 13 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 turned | conj |
| 14 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 beheld | advcl |
| 15 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 standing | obl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 lady | det |
| 18 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 lady | amod |
| 19 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 standing | obj |
| 20 | exquisitely | exquisitely | ADV | _ | 21 dressed | advmod |
| 21 | dressed | dress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 lady | acl |
| 22 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 describe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | shall | storks's surprise | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent surprise=Theme | |||||
| 2 | turn round | participle | storks = stork | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | behold | past | storks = stork not said here | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | stand | gerund | storks = stork not said here | a beautiful lady | before storks = stork | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent lady=Theme before they=Destination | |||
| 5 | dress | participle | a beautiful lady not said here | exquisitely property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | surprise | storks = stork | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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