The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 42

At length the Vizier suggested going further on to a pond which lay beyond the town, and where he had often seen a variety of creatures, especially storks, whose grave, dignified appearance and constant chatter had often attracted his attention.

Who acts: Vizier, pond, storks · What happens: suggest, go, lie, see, attract, attend · To what, where: length, pond, town, variety, dignified appearance

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 (Vizier, pond, storks), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 length	case
2	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 suggested	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Vizier	det
4	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 suggested	nsubj
5	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 suggested	xcomp
7	further	further	ADV	_	8 on	advmod
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 pond	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pond	det
11	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 going	obl
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 pond	acl:relcl
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	16 town	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 town	det
16	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lay	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 seen	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 seen	cc
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 seen	advmod
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 seen	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 seen	aux
22	often	often	ADV	_	23 seen	advmod
23	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 suggested	advcl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 variety	det
25	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 seen	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 creatures	case
27	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 variety	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 storks	punct
29	especially	especially	ADV	_	30 storks	advmod
30	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 creatures	appos
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 grave	punct
32	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	33 grave	nmod:poss
33	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 storks	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 appearance	punct
35	dignified	dignified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 appearance	amod
36	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 attracted	nsubj:pass
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 chatter	cc
38	constant	constant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 chatter	amod
39	chatter	chatter	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 appearance	conj
40	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	42 attracted	aux
41	often	often	ADV	_	42 attracted	advmod
42	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 storks	acl:relcl
43	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 attention	nmod:poss
44	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 attracted	obj
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 suggested	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	past	the Vizier		length		vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	go	gerund	the Vizier not said here		a pond		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial_Location
3	lie	past	a pond		the town		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond town=Location
4	see	past · perfect	Vizier	a variety of creatures		often property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer variety=Stimulus
5	attract	past · perfect · passive	storks and storks and storks's grave's grave not said here	dignified appearance and constant chatter		often property	tree rules
6	attend		Vizier				nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent

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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