The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 33
When Selim the learned had read this, the Caliph was delighted.
Who acts: Caliph · What happens: learn, read, be · To what, where: Selim
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), 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 | _ | 6 read | mark |
| 2 | Selim | Selim | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 read | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 learned | det |
| 4 | learned | learn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Selim | acl |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 read | aux |
| 6 | read | read | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 delighted | advcl |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 read | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 read | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Caliph | det |
| 10 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 delighted | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 delighted | cop |
| 12 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | learn | participle | Selim not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | read | past · perfect · passive | Selim | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient this=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Caliph | delighted 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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