The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 22
‘Selim,’ said the Caliph, ‘I hear you are a scholar.
Who acts: Selim, I, you · What happens: say, hear, be · To what, where: scholar · 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 (Selim, I, you), 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 | _ | 2 Selim | punct |
| 2 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Selim | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Selim | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Caliph | det |
| 7 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 hear | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 hear | nsubj |
| 11 | hear | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 scholar | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 scholar | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 scholar | det |
| 15 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hear | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Selim | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | hear | present | I | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | a scholar | 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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