The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 39

Next morning Caliph Chasid had barely finished dressing, and breakfasting, when the Grand Vizier arrived, according to orders, to accompany him in his expedition.

Who acts: Grand Vizier · What happens: finish, breakfast, arrive, accord, accompany · To what, where: Next morning, Vizier, expedition

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 (Grand Vizier), 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	Next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 morning	amod
2	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	nsubj:pass
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 morning	appos
4	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Caliph	flat
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 finished	aux
6	barely	barely	ADV	_	7 finished	advmod
7	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	dressing	dressing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 finished	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 breakfasting	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 breakfasting	cc
11	breakfasting	breakfast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 finished	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 arrived	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 arrived	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Vizier	det
15	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Vizier	amod
16	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 arrived	nsubj
17	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 breakfasting	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 orders	punct
19	according	accord	VERB	ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 orders	case
20	to	to	ADP	_	19 according	fixed
21	orders	order	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 arrived	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 accompany	punct
23	to	to	PART	_	24 accompany	mark
24	accompany	accompany	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 arrived	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 accompany	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 expedition	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 expedition	nmod:poss
28	expedition	expedition	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 accompany	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 finished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		Next morning		barely property	tree rules
2	breakfast	gerund					vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	arrive	past	the Grand Vizier			accord orders	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	accord	gerund					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	accompany	to-infinitive	the Grand Vizier not said here	Vizier	Vizier's expedition		vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in expedition=Destination

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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