The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 5
This was, in fact, the best time of day in which to approach him, for just now he was pretty sure to be both affable and in good spirits, and for this reason the Grand Vizier Mansor always chose this hour in which to pay his daily visit.
Who acts: This, Bagdad, Grand Vizier · What happens: be, approach, choose, pay, visit · To what, where: fact, Bagdad, reason, daily visit
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 (This, Bagdad, Grand Vizier), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 fact | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fact | cop |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fact | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 fact | case |
| 5 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fact | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 approach | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 day | case |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 time | nmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 approach | obl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 approach | mark |
| 15 | approach | approach | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fact | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 approach | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 sure | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 sure | mark |
| 19 | just | just | ADV | _ | 20 now | advmod |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 sure | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 sure | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 sure | cop |
| 23 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 24 sure | advmod |
| 24 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 approach | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 be | mark |
| 26 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 sure | xcomp |
| 27 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 28 affable | cc:preconj |
| 28 | affable | affable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 sure | conj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 spirits | cc |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 spirits | case |
| 31 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 spirits | amod |
| 32 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 sure | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 reason | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 reason | cc |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 reason | case |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 reason | det |
| 37 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 approach | parataxis |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 Vizier | det |
| 39 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 Vizier | amod |
| 40 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 chose | nsubj |
| 41 | Mansor | Mansor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 Vizier | flat |
| 42 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 43 chose | advmod |
| 43 | chose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 reason | acl:relcl |
| 44 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 45 hour | det |
| 45 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 chose | obj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 pay | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 pay | mark |
| 49 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 hour | acl:relcl |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 visit | nmod:poss |
| 51 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 visit | amod |
| 52 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 pay | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fact | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | This | fact | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | approach | to-infinitive | Bagdad | fact | time | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | Bagdad | now | pretty, sure property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | to-infinitive | Bagdad not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be | Bagdad not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 6 | choose | past | the Grand Vizier | this reason not said here | hour | always property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Theme | ||
| 7 | pay | to-infinitive | the Grand Vizier not said here | Bagdad's daily visit | in this hour | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 8 | visit | Bagdad | nom visit «act transitive»: 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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