The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 25

Selim prostrated himself and said, ‘Be it according to your will, oh master!’

Who acts: Selim · What happens: prostrate, say, be, accord · To what, where: Selim, five · 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), 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	Selim	Selim	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 prostrated	nsubj
2	prostrated	prostrate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 prostrated	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 prostrated	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 it	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 it	punct
8	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 it	cop
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	ccomp
10	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 will	case
11	to	to	ADP	_	10 according	fixed
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 will	nmod:poss
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 master	punct
15	oh	oh	INTJ	_	16 master	discourse
16	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prostrated	parataxis
17	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 master	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 master	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	prostrate	past	Selim	Selim	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	Selim not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	infinitive		five	tree rules
4	accord	gerund			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

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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