The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 183
When he chose the latter, the Grand Vizier handed him the box.
Who acts: arrival, Grand Vizier · What happens: choose, hand · To what, where: latter, box, 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 (arrival, Grand Vizier), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 chose | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 chose | nsubj |
| 3 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 handed | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 latter | det |
| 5 | latter | latter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chose | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 chose | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Vizier | det |
| 8 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Vizier | amod |
| 9 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 handed | nsubj |
| 10 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 handed | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 box | det |
| 13 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 handed | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 handed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | past | arrival | the latter | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent latter=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hand | past | the Grand Vizier | the box | arrival | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination box=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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