The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 185
The Caliph ordered him to be confined in an iron cage, and placed in the palace gardens.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: order, confine, place · To what, where: arrival, iron cage, palace gardens
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), 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 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 ordered | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 confined | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 confined | aux:pass |
| 7 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | xcomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 cage | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cage | det |
| 10 | iron | iron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cage | compound |
| 11 | cage | cage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confined | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 placed | cc |
| 14 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ordered | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 gardens | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 gardens | det |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 gardens | compound |
| 18 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 placed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | past | the Caliph | arrival | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | confine not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the Caliph not said here | a iron cage | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in cage=Destination | ||||
| 3 | place | participle | the Caliph not said here | the palace gardens | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in garden=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/185/