The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 174

The Caliph was so enchanted by her grace and beauty, that he declared being turned into a stork had been the best piece of luck which had ever befallen him.

Who acts: grace · What happens: enchant, turn, be, befall · To what, where: Caliph, best piece

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 (grace), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 enchanted	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 enchanted	aux:pass
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 enchanted	advmod
5	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 grace	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 grace	nmod:poss
8	grace	grace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 enchanted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 beauty	cc
10	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grace	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 declared	mark
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 declared	nsubj
14	declared	declare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 turned	aux:pass
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 turned	aux:pass
16	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 enchanted	conj
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 stork	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stork	det
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	obl
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 piece	aux
21	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 piece	cop
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 piece	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	24 piece	amod
24	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 turned	xcomp
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 luck	case
26	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 piece	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 befallen	nsubj:pass
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 befallen	aux
29	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	30 befallen	advmod
30	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 piece	acl:relcl
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 befallen	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 enchanted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	enchant	past · passive	life's grace and beauty	the Caliph			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	turn	past · passive	life's grace and beauty not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»
3	is a	past · perfect	life's grace and beauty not said here	the best piece		into a stork; of luck	tree rules
4	befall	past · perfect · passive		the best piece	ever		tree rules

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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