The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 37

To-morrow morning I shall expect you early; we will go into the country, take some snuff from my box, and then hear what is being said in air, earth, and water.’

Who acts: I, we · What happens: expect, go, take, hear, say · To what, where: you, water, country, snuff, box, air · 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 (I, we), 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	To	to	ADP	_	4 morning	case
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 To	punct
3	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 morning	compound
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 expect	obl
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 expect	nsubj
6	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 expect	aux
7	expect	expect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 expect	obj
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 expect	advmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 go	punct
11	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 go	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 go	aux
13	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 expect	parataxis
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 country	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 country	det
16	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 take	punct
18	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	13 go	parataxis
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 snuff	det
20	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obj
21	from	from	ADP	_	23 box	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 box	nmod:poss
23	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 take	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 hear	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hear	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 hear	advmod
27	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 go	conj
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 said	obj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 said	aux:pass
30	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 said	aux:pass
31	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 hear	ccomp
32	in	in	ADP	_	33 air	case
33	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 said	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 earth	punct
35	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 air	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 water	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 water	cc
38	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 go	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 expect	punct
40	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 expect	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	expect	shall	I	you		morning	early property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	go	future	we	water	the country			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location
3	take	infinitive		some snuff	my box			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent snuff=Theme from box=Initial_Location
4	hear	infinitive	we not said here			then		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	say speech: assert	present · passive			air and earth			vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: what=Theme in air=Manner

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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