The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 27
Suddenly he exclaimed: ‘May I die, oh, my Lord, if this isn’t Latin!’
Who acts: Selim, I, this · What happens: exclaim, die, not be · To what, where: Lord · 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, this), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 3 exclaimed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 3 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 6 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 die | aux |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 die | nsubj |
| 8 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lord | punct |
| 10 | oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 13 Lord | discourse |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lord | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 13 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 die | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Lord | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 Latin | mark |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 Latin | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 Latin | cop |
| 18 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 Latin | advmod |
| 19 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 die | advcl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 die | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Selim | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | die | may | I | my Lord | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | present | this | latin property | 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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