The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 3

He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave handed to him, and after each sip he stroked his long beard with an air of enjoyment.

Who acts: Bagdad, little coffee · What happens: smoke, sip, slave, hand, stroke · To what, where: long pipe, little coffee, slave, Bagdad, long beard

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 (Bagdad, little coffee), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 smoking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smoking	aux
3	smoking	smoke	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 pipe	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pipe	amod
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smoking	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sipped	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sipped	cc
9	from	from	ADP	_	10 time	case
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sipped	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 time	case
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 time	nmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sipped	nsubj
14	sipped	sip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 smoking	parataxis
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 coffee	det
16	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 coffee	amod
17	coffee	coffee	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sipped	obj
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 slave	nsubj
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 slave	det
20	slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 coffee	appos
21	handed	hand	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 slave	acl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 him	case
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 handed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 stroked	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 stroked	cc
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 sip	case
27	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	28 sip	det
28	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stroked	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 stroked	nsubj
30	stroked	stroke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 sipped	conj
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 beard	nmod:poss
32	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 beard	amod
33	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stroked	obj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 air	case
35	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	36 air	det
36	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 stroked	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 enjoyment	case
38	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 air	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 smoking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	past · progressive	Bagdad	a long pipe				vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source
2	sip	past	Bagdad	a little coffee		time		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient
3	slave		a little coffee					tree rules
4	hand	participle		a slave not said here	Bagdad			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination
5	stroke	past	Bagdad	Bagdad's long beard		after each sip	with a air of enjoyment	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beard=Experiencer with air=Instrument

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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