The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 2
Caliph Chasid, of Bagdad, was resting comfortably on his divan one fine afternoon.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: rest · To what, where: divan
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 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | nsubj |
| 2 | Chasid | Chasid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Caliph | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Bagdad | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Bagdad | case |
| 5 | Bagdad | Bagdad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Caliph | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Caliph | punct |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 resting | aux |
| 8 | resting | rest | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 8 resting | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 divan | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 divan | nmod:poss |
| 12 | divan | divan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | obl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 afternoon | nummod |
| 14 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 afternoon | amod |
| 15 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 resting | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 resting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rest | past · progressive | Caliph and Bagdad | Bagdad's divan | afternoon | comfortably property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent on divan=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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