The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 48

‘Well said,’ replied the Caliph; ‘but first let us remember carefully how we are to become men once more.

Who acts: ’, us, we · What happens: say, reply, let, remember, be · To what, where: Caliph, us, men · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (’, us, we), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 replied	punct
5	’	'	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 replied	nsubj
6	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Caliph	det
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 replied	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 let	advmod
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	15 remember	advmod
17	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	21 become	advmod
18	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 become	nsubj
19	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 become	cop
20	to	to	PART	_	21 become	mark
21	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 remember	advcl
22	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 become	xcomp
23	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	24 more	advmod
24	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 become	advmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reply speech: assert	past	’	the Caliph		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic
3	let	infinitive		us	first property	tree rules
4	remember	infinitive	us not said here		carefully property	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	we	men	become 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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