The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 179
Their rage with the usurper Mirza, however, was great in proportion.
Who acts: rage, people · What happens: be, rage · To what, where: proportion
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 (rage, people), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rage | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 great | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 Mirza | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mirza | det |
| 5 | usurper | usurper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mirza | nmod:desc |
| 6 | Mirza | Mirza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 rage | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 rage | punct |
| 8 | however | however | ADV | _ | 11 great | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 however | punct |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 great | cop |
| 11 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 proportion | case |
| 13 | proportion | proportion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 great | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | people's rage with the Mirza usurper | proportion | great, however property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rage | people | with the Mirza usurper | nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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