The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 18

The Caliph, who liked to have old manuscripts in his library, even though he could not read them, purchased the scroll and the box, and dismissed the pedlar.

Who acts: Caliph, merchant · What happens: like, have, not read, purchase, dismiss · To what, where: old manuscripts, library, Caliph, scroll, pedlar

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, merchant), 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	22 purchased	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 liked	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 liked	nsubj
5	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Caliph	acl:relcl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 have	mark
7	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 liked	xcomp
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 manuscripts	amod
9	manuscripts	manuscript	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 have	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 library	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 library	nmod:poss
12	library	library	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 have	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 read	punct
14	even	even	ADV	_	19 read	advmod
15	though	though	SCONJ	_	19 read	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 read	nsubj
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 read	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 read	advmod
19	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 have	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 read	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Caliph	punct
22	purchased	purchase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 scroll	det
24	scroll	scroll	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 purchased	obj
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 box	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 box	det
27	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 scroll	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dismissed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dismissed	cc
30	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 purchased	conj
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pedlar	det
32	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 dismissed	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 purchased	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	like	past	the Caliph			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	have not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here	old manuscripts	merchant's library	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent manuscript=Patient
3	not read	could	merchant	Caliph		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
4	purchase	past	the Caliph	the scroll and the box		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scroll=Theme
5	dismiss	past	the Caliph not said here	the pedlar		vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pedlar=Theme

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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