The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 31
When he wishes to resume the human form, he has only to bow three times towards the east, and to repeat the same word.
Who acts: word · What happens: wish, resume, have, bow, repeat · To what, where: human form, same word · 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 (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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 wishes | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wishes | nsubj |
| 3 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 has | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 resume | mark |
| 5 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wishes | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 form | det |
| 7 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 form | amod |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resume | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wishes | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 has | nsubj |
| 11 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 bow | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 bow | mark |
| 14 | bow | bow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 has | xcomp |
| 15 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 times | nummod |
| 16 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bow | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 east | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 east | det |
| 19 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bow | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 repeat | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 repeat | cc |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 repeat | mark |
| 23 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 bow | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 word | det |
| 25 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 word | amod |
| 26 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 repeat | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | word | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | resume not said to happen | to-infinitive | the human form | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | have | present | word | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bow | to-infinitive | word not said here | time | towards the east | vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards east=Recipient | |||
| 5 | repeat | to-infinitive | word not said here | the same word | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality |
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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