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The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 40

The Caliph stuck the snuff-box in his girdle, and, having desired his servants to remain at home, started off with the Grand Vizier only in attendance.

Who acts: Caliph · What happens: stick, desire, remain, start off · To what, where: snuff box, girdle, servants, home, attendance

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

detnsubjdetcompoundpunctobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctccpunctauxconjnmod:possobjmarkccompcaseoblpunctconjcompound:prtcasedetamodobladvmodcaseoblpunctrootTheDETCaliphPROPNstuckVERBtheDETsnuffNOUN-PUNCTboxNOUNinADPhisPRONgirdleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJ,PUNCThavingAUXdesiredVERBhisPRONservantsNOUNtoPARTremainVERBatADPhomeNOUN,PUNCTstartedVERBoffADPwithADPtheDETGrandADJVizierPROPNonlyADVinADPattendanceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Caliphdet
2CaliphCaliphPROPNNumber=Sing3 stucknsubj
3stuckstickVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 boxdet
5snuffsnuffNOUNNumber=Sing7 boxcompound
6--PUNCT_5 snuffpunct
7boxboxNOUNNumber=Sing3 stuckobj
8ininADP_10 girdlecase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 girdlenmod:poss
10girdlegirdleNOUNNumber=Sing7 boxnmod
11,,PUNCT_15 desiredpunct
12andandCCONJ_15 desiredcc
13,,PUNCT_12 andpunct
14havinghaveAUXTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 desiredaux
15desireddesireVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 stuckconj
16hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 servantsnmod:poss
17servantsservantNOUNNumber=Plur15 desiredobj
18totoPART_19 remainmark
19remainremainVERBVerbForm=Inf15 desiredccomp
20atatADP_21 homecase
21homehomeNOUNNumber=Sing19 remainobl
22,,PUNCT_23 startedpunct
23startedstartVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 stuckconj
24offoffADP_23 startedcompound:prt
25withwithADP_28 Viziercase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art28 Vizierdet
27GrandGrandADJDegree=Pos28 Vizieramod
28VizierVizierPROPNNumber=Sing23 startedobl
29onlyonlyADV_31 attendanceadvmod
30ininADP_31 attendancecase
31attendanceattendanceNOUNNumber=Sing23 startedobl
32..PUNCT_3 stuckpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1stickpastthe Caliphthe snuff boxVizier's girdlevn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in girdle=Destination
2desiregerund · perfectthe Caliph not said hereVizier's servantstree rules
3remain not said to happento-infinitivethe Caliph not said herehomevn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location
4start offpastthe Caliph not said hereattendancewith the Grand Viziervn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with vizier=Subeventuality

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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