The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 41
First they walked through the palace gardens, but they looked in vain for some creature which could tempt them to try their magic power.
Who acts: Caliph, creature · What happens: walk, look, tempt, try · To what, where: palace gardens, vain, Caliph, magic power
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, creature), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 gardens | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gardens | det |
| 6 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gardens | compound |
| 7 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 walked | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 looked | nsubj |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 vain | case |
| 13 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 looked | obl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 creature | case |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 creature | det |
| 16 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 looked | obl |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 tempt | nsubj |
| 18 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 tempt | aux |
| 19 | tempt | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 creature | acl:relcl |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tempt | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 try | mark |
| 22 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 tempt | xcomp |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 power | nmod:poss |
| 24 | magic | magic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 power | compound |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 try | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | Caliph | the palace gardens | first property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through garden=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | look | past | Caliph | vain | for some creature | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent in vain=Location for creature=Theme | |||
| 3 | tempt | could | some creature | Caliph | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | some creature not said here | Caliph's magic power | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=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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