The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 190

The Caliphess and her children were always much entertained by this performance; but when the Caliph went on nodding and bowing, and calling ‘Mu...mu...’ too long, the Vizier would threaten laughingly to tell the Chaliphess the subject of the discussion carried on one night outside the door of Princess Screech Owl.

Who acts: performance, Caliph, Vizier, subject · What happens: entertain, go, call, threaten, tell, carry · To what, where: Caliphess, nodding, Mu, subject, Chaliphess · 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 (performance, Caliph, Vizier, subject), 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 Caliphess	det
2	Caliphess	Caliphess	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 entertained	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 children	cc
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 children	nmod:poss
5	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Caliphess	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 entertained	aux:pass
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 entertained	advmod
9	entertained	entertain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 performance	case
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 performance	det
12	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 entertained	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 threaten	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	38 threaten	cc
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 went	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Caliph	det
17	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 went	nsubj
18	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 threaten	advcl
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 nodding	case
20	nodding	nodding	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 went	obl
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bowing	cc
22	bowing	bowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nodding	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 calling	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 calling	cc
25	calling	call	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 went	advcl
26	‘	'	PUNCT	_	27 Mu	punct
27	Mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 calling	obj
28	...	...	PUNCT	_	29 mu	punct
29	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 Mu	conj
30	...	...	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
31	’	'	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
32	too	too	ADV	_	33 long	advmod
33	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 went	advmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 went	punct
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 Vizier	det
36	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 threaten	nsubj
37	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 threaten	aux
38	threaten	threaten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 entertained	conj
39	laughingly	laughingly	ADV	_	38 threaten	advmod
40	to	to	PART	_	41 tell	mark
41	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 threaten	advcl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 Chaliphess	det
43	Chaliphess	Chaliphess	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 tell	obj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 subject	det
45	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 tell	obj
46	of	of	ADP	_	48 discussion	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 discussion	det
48	discussion	discussion	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 carried	obl
49	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 subject	acl:relcl
50	on	on	ADP	_	52 night	case
51	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	52 night	nummod
52	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 carried	obl
53	outside	outside	ADP	_	55 door	case
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 door	det
55	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 carried	obl
56	of	of	ADP	_	59 Owl	case
57	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Owl	compound
58	Screech	Screech	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 Owl	compound
59	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	55 door	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 entertained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	entertain	past · passive	this performance	the Caliphess and wife's children					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	go	past	the Caliph			nodding and bowing		long property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on nodding=Location
3	call	gerund	the Caliph not said here	Mu and mu					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mu=Recipient
4	threaten	would	the Vizier					laughingly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Vizier not said here	the subject	the Chaliphess				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent chaliphess=Recipient subject=Topic
6	carry	past	the subject not said here				night	of the discussion; outside the door of Princess Screech Owl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent of discussion=Initial_Location

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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