The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 23
Look well at this scroll and see whether you can read it.
Who acts: you · What happens: look, see, read · 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 (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 | Look | look | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Look | advmod |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 scroll | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 scroll | det |
| 5 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Look | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Look | conj |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 read | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 read | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 read | aux |
| 11 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 see | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 read | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Look | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | imperative | you not said here | at this scroll; well property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at scroll=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | read | can | you | scholar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
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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