The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 52
As the Caliph spoke he saw the second stork circling round his head and gradually flying towards the earth.
Who acts: Caliph, Heaven, second stork · What happens: speak, see, circle, fly · To what, where: second stork, earth · 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 (Caliph, Heaven, second 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 | SCONJ | _ | 4 spoke | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Caliph | det |
| 3 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spoke | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stork | det |
| 8 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 stork | amod |
| 9 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 stork | acl |
| 11 | round | round | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 circling | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 flying | cc |
| 15 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 16 flying | advmod |
| 16 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 circling | conj |
| 17 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 19 earth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 earth | det |
| 19 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flying | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the Caliph | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Heaven | the second stork | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | circle | gerund | the second stork not said here | round Heaven's head | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | gerund | the second stork not said here | the earth | gradually property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards earth=Destination |
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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