The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 50

Bow three times towards the east and say “Mutabor!” and I shall be Caliph and you my Grand Vizier again.

Who acts: you, I · What happens: bow, say, be · To what, where: Mutabor, Caliph · 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 (you, I), 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	Bow	bow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 times	nummod
3	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Bow	obl:unmarked
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 east	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 east	det
6	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bow	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 say	cc
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Bow	conj
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 Mutabor	punct
10	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	10 Mutabor	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	10 Mutabor	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 Caliph	cc
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 Caliph	nsubj
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 Caliph	aux
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 Caliph	cop
17	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mutabor	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 Vizier	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 Vizier	nsubj
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 Vizier	nmod:poss
21	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 Vizier	amod
22	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Mutabor	conj
23	again	again	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	bow	imperative	you not said here		time	towards the east	vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent towards east=Recipient
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	Mutabor and Caliph and my Grand Vizier	again		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mutabor=Topic
3	is a	shall	I	Caliph			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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