The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 184
One good pinch, and the magic word transformed him to a stork.
Who acts: magic word · What happens: transform · To what, where: One good pinch
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 (magic word), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 pinch | nummod |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 pinch | amod |
| 3 | pinch | pinch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 transformed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 transformed | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | compound |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | nsubj |
| 9 | transformed | transform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 transformed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 stork | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stork | det |
| 13 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 transformed | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 transformed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | transform | past | the magic word | One good pinch | to a stork | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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