The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 187

His merriest time was when the Grand Vizier visited him in the afternoon; and when the Caliph was in particularly high spirits he would condescend to mimic the Vizier’s appearance when he was a stork.

Who acts: merriest time, Grand Vizier, Caliph, arrival · What happens: be, visit, mimic · To what, where: arrival, high spirits, appearance, stork

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 (merriest time, Grand Vizier, Caliph, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 time	nmod:poss
2	merriest	merry	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 when	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 when	cop
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Vizier	det
7	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Vizier	amod
8	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 visited	nsubj
9	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 when	advcl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 visited	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 afternoon	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 afternoon	det
13	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 visited	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 condescend	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 condescend	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	26 condescend	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Caliph	det
18	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 condescend	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 condescend	cop
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 spirits	case
21	particularly	particularly	ADV	_	22 high	advmod
22	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 spirits	amod
23	spirits	spirit	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 condescend	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 condescend	nsubj
25	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 condescend	aux
26	condescend	condescend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 when	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 mimic	mark
28	mimic	mimic	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 condescend	xcomp
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Vizier	det
30	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 appearance	nmod:poss
31	’s	's	PART	_	30 Vizier	case
32	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mimic	obj
33	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	37 stork	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 stork	nsubj
35	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	37 stork	cop
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 stork	det
37	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 mimic	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 when	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	arrival's merriest time				when property	tree rules
2	visit	past	the Grand Vizier	arrival		afternoon		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent
3	is	would · past	the Caliph		high spirits		condescend property	tree rules
4	mimic	to-infinitive	the Caliph not said here	the Vizier's appearance				tree rules
5	is a	past	arrival	a stork				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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