The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 30

Whoever shall snuff the powder in this box, and at the same time shall pronounce the word “Mutabor!” can transform himself into any creature he likes, and will understand the language of all animals.

Who acts: Whoever, word · What happens: snuff, pronounce, transform, like, understand · To what, where: powder, box, word, creature, language

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 (Whoever, word), 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	Whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 snuff	nsubj
2	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 snuff	aux
3	snuff	snuff	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 powder	det
5	powder	powder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snuff	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 box	case
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 box	det
8	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snuff	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pronounce	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pronounce	cc
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 time	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 time	det
13	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 time	amod
14	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pronounce	obl
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 pronounce	aux
16	pronounce	pronounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 snuff	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 word	det
18	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 transform	nsubj
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Mutabor	punct
20	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 word	appos
21	!	!	PUNCT	_	20 Mutabor	punct
22	”	"	PUNCT	_	20 Mutabor	punct
23	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 transform	aux
24	transform	transform	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 pronounce	ccomp
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 transform	obj
26	into	into	ADP	_	28 creature	case
27	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	28 creature	det
28	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 transform	obl
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 likes	nsubj
30	likes	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 creature	acl:relcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 understand	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 understand	cc
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 understand	aux
34	understand	understand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 snuff	parataxis
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 language	det
36	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 understand	obj
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 animals	case
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 animals	det
39	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 language	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 snuff	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snuff	shall	Whoever	the powder	this box			tree rules
2	pronounce	shall	Whoever not said here			time		tree rules
3	transform	can	the word	word			into any creature result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent himself=Patient into creature=Result
4	like	present	word	any creature not said here				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot creature=Theme
5	understand	future		the language of all animals				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus

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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