The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 182
As the son, however, knew nothing of his father’s acts, the Caliph gave him his choice between death and a pinch of the magic snuff.
Who acts: Caliph, father · What happens: know, give, act, pinch · To what, where: nothing, choice, arrival, magic snuff
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, father), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 son | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 knew | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 knew | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 acts | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 acts | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 father | case |
| 13 | acts | act | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Caliph | det |
| 16 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 knew | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 gave | iobj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 choice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | choice | choice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 21 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choice | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pinch | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 pinch | det |
| 25 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 choice | conj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 snuff | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 snuff | det |
| 28 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 snuff | amod |
| 29 | snuff | snuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pinch | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | nothing | as the son; however property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus as son=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Caliph | arrival's choice and a pinch of the magic snuff | arrival | between death | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient choice=Theme | ||
| 3 | act | arrival's father | nom act «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | pinch | the magic snuff | nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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