The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 28
‘Well,’ said the Caliph, ‘if it is Latin, let us hear what it means.’
Who acts: Caliph, sun., us · What happens: say, be, let, hear, mean · To what, where: us · 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 (Caliph, sun., us), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | _ | 13 Latin | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 Latin | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 Latin | mark |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 Latin | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 Latin | cop |
| 13 | Latin | Latin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 let | punct |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 Latin | parataxis |
| 16 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 means | obj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 hear | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Caliph | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | sun. | latin property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | infinitive | us not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | sun. | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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