The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 177

Here the Caliph’s arrival created the greatest sensation.

Who acts: arrival, Caliph · What happens: create, arrive · To what, where: greatest sensation

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 (arrival, Caliph), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 created	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Caliph	det
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 arrival	nmod:poss
4	’s	's	PART	_	3 Caliph	case
5	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 created	nsubj
6	created	create	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sensation	det
8	greatest	great	ADJ	Degree=Sup	9 sensation	amod
9	sensation	sensation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 created	obj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 created	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	create	past	the Caliph's arrival	the greatest sensation		here			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sensation=Result
2	arrive		the Caliph						nom arrival «act intransitive»: 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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