The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 172
With a smile she held out her hand to the Caliph, and asked: ‘Do you not recognise your screech owl?’
Who acts: life, you · What happens: hold out, ask, not recognise · To what, where: hand, screech owl · 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 (life, 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 smile | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 smile | det |
| 3 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 held | nsubj |
| 5 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 held | compound:prt |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hand | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 Caliph | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Caliph | det |
| 11 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 held | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 held | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognise | punct |
| 16 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognise | punct |
| 17 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 recognise | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 recognise | nsubj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 recognise | advmod |
| 20 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 owl | nmod:poss |
| 22 | screech | screech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 owl | compound |
| 23 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 recognise | obj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognise | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 recognise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold out | past | life | life's hand | with a smile; to the Caliph | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | life not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not recognise | present · do-support | you | your screech owl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer owl=Stimulus |
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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