The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 188

He would strut gravely, and with well-stiffened legs, up and down the room, chattering, and showing how he had vainly bowed to the east and cried ‘Mu...

Who acts: arrival · What happens: strut, stiffen, chatter, show, bow, cry · To what, where: room, Mu · Speech: someone speaks here

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 strut	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 strut	aux
3	strut	strut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	gravely	gravely	ADV	_	3 strut	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 up	cc
7	with	with	ADP	_	11 legs	case
8	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 stiffened	advmod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 well	punct
10	stiffened	stiffen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 legs	amod
11	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 up	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	ADP	_	17 room	case
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 down	cc
15	down	down	ADP	_	13 up	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 room	det
17	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 strut	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 chattering	punct
19	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 strut	advcl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 showing	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 showing	cc
22	showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 chattering	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	27 bowed	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 bowed	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bowed	aux
26	vainly	vainly	ADV	_	27 bowed	advmod
27	bowed	bow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	22 showing	ccomp
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 east	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 east	det
30	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 bowed	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 cried	cc
32	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 bowed	conj
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Mu	punct
34	Mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 cried	obl
35	...	...	PUNCT	_	3 strut	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	strut	would	arrival		the room	gravely property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up room=Trajectory
2	stiffen	participle				well property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	chatter	gerund	arrival not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	show	gerund	arrival not said here				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	bow	past · perfect	arrival			to the east; vainly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to east=Theme
6	cry speech: express	past	arrival not said here	Mu			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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