The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 47

How would it be if we turned ourselves into storks?’

Who acts: chat · What happens: be

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 (chat), 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	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 turned	advmod
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 turned	aux
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 turned	cop
5	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 turned	mark
6	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 turned	nsubj
7	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	7 turned	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	10 storks	case
10	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 turned	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	would	chat					into storks; turn property	tree rules

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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