The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 176
Fortunately, the Caliph found not only the box with the magic powder, but also his purse in his girdle; he was, therefore, able to buy in the nearest village all they required for their journey, and so at last they reached the gates of Bagdad.
Who acts: Caliph, Bagdad · What happens: find, be, buy, require, reach, journey · To what, where: box, nearest village, gates
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 (Caliph, Bagdad), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 5 found | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fortunately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Caliph | det |
| 4 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 found | nsubj |
| 5 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 box | advmod |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 9 box | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 box | det |
| 9 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 powder | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 powder | det |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 powder | amod |
| 13 | powder | powder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 box | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 purse | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 purse | cc |
| 16 | also | also | ADV | _ | 18 purse | advmod |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 purse | nmod:poss |
| 18 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 found | obl |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 girdle | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 girdle | nmod:poss |
| 21 | girdle | girdle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 purse | nmod |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 able | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 able | cop |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 26 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 28 able | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 able | punct |
| 28 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 found | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 buy | mark |
| 30 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 able | xcomp |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 village | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 village | det |
| 33 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 34 village | amod |
| 34 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 buy | obl |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 village | conj |
| 36 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 required | nsubj |
| 37 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 all | acl:relcl |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 40 journey | case |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 journey | nmod:poss |
| 40 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 required | obl |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 last | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 last | cc |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 45 last | advmod |
| 44 | at | at | ADP | _ | 45 last | case |
| 45 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 able | conj |
| 46 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 reached | nsubj |
| 47 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 last | acl:relcl |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 gates | det |
| 49 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 47 reached | obj |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 Bagdad | case |
| 51 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 49 gates | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the Caliph | the box | with the magic powder; Bagdad's purse in Bagdad's girdle obl; fortunately property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic | |||
| 2 | is | past | Bagdad | able, therefore property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | buy | to-infinitive | Bagdad not said here | the nearest village | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | require | past | Caliph | for Caliph's journey | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | be | Bagdad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | reach | past | Caliph | the gates of Bagdad | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | ||||
| 7 | journey | Caliph | nom journey «act 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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