The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 44

As soon as they arrived they remarked a stork strutting up and down with a stately air, hunting for frogs, and now and then muttering something to itself.

Who acts: Caliph, stork · What happens: arrive, remark, strut, hunt, mutter · To what, where: stork, something, air

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, stork), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 arrived	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 arrived	mark
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 arrived	nsubj
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 remarked	nsubj
7	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 arrived	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stork	det
9	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 remarked	obj
10	strutting	strut	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 stork	acl
11	up	up	ADV	_	10 strutting	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 down	cc
13	down	down	ADV	_	11 up	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 air	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 air	det
16	stately	stately	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 air	amod
17	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 strutting	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hunting	punct
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 strutting	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 frogs	case
21	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hunting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 muttering	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 muttering	cc
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 muttering	advmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 muttering	cc
26	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 muttering	advmod
27	muttering	mutter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 arrived	advcl
28	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	27 muttering	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 itself	case
30	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 muttering	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	Caliph				soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	remark speech: assert	past	Caliph	a stork				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stork=Topic
3	strut	gerund	a stork not said here				with a stately air	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt	gerund	a stork not said here				for frogs	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for frog=Theme
5	mutter speech: assert	gerund	Caliph not said here	something	air	now; then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to itself=Recipient

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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