The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 20
‘Most gracious Lord and master,’ replied the Vizier, ‘near the great Mosque lives a man called Selim the learned, who knows every language under the sun. Send for him; it may be that he will be able to interpret these mysterious characters.’
Who acts: Most gracious Lord, man, sun., it · What happens: reply, live, call, learn, know, send · To what, where: Vizier, man, great Mosque, language, mysterious characters · 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 (Most gracious Lord, man, sun., it), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lord | punct |
| 2 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 Lord | amod |
| 3 | gracious | gracious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lord | amod |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 master | cc |
| 6 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Lord | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lord | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lord | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Vizier | det |
| 11 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 lives | punct |
| 14 | near | near | ADP | _ | 17 Mosque | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Mosque | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 Mosque | amod |
| 17 | Mosque | Mosque | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obl |
| 18 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lives | obj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 man | acl |
| 22 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 called | xcomp |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 learned | det |
| 24 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 called | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 knows | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 knows | nsubj |
| 27 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 man | acl:relcl |
| 28 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 29 language | det |
| 29 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 knows | obj |
| 30 | under | under | ADP | _ | 33 Send | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sun. | det |
| 32 | sun. | sun. | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Send | nsubj |
| 33 | Send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 knows | advcl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 Send | obl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 44 able | punct |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 able | nsubj |
| 38 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 able | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 able | cop |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 44 able | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 able | nsubj |
| 42 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 able | aux |
| 43 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 44 able | cop |
| 44 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 interpret | mark |
| 46 | interpret | interpret | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 able | xcomp |
| 47 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 49 characters | det |
| 48 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 characters | amod |
| 49 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 interpret | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Most gracious Lord and master | the Vizier | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vizier=Topic | ||||
| 2 | live | present | Most gracious Lord and master not said here | a man | the great Mosque | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme man=Location | |||
| 3 | call | participle | a man not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | learn | participle | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | know | present | a man | every language | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | send | infinitive | the sun. | for Vizier | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | may · future | it | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | interpret | to-infinitive | this mysterious characters | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent character=Theme |
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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