The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 181

The Caliph sent the magician to the room where the Princess had lived as an owl, and there had him hanged.

Who acts: Caliph, Princess, arrival · What happens: send, live, have, hange · To what, where: magician, room, arrival

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, Princess, arrival), 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	3 sent	nsubj
3	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 magician	det
5	magician	magician	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 room	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 room	det
8	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sent	obl
9	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	13 lived	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Princess	det
11	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 lived	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lived	aux
13	lived	live	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 room	acl:relcl
14	as	as	ADP	_	16 owl	case
15	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 owl	det
16	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lived	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 had	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 had	cc
19	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	20 had	expl
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sent	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 had	obj
22	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 had	xcomp
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	send	past	the Caliph	the magician	the room		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent magician=Theme to room=Destination
2	live	past · perfect	the Princess			as a owl	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have	past	the Caliph not said here	arrival	there		tree rules
4	hange	participle	arrival not said here				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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