The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 53

Quickly he drew the box from his girdle, took a good pinch of the snuff, and offered one to Mansor, who also took one, and both cried together ‘Mutabor!’

Who acts: Heaven, Mansor · What happens: draw, take, offer, cry, pinch · To what, where: box, girdle, good pinch, one, Mansor, Mutabor

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 (Heaven, Mansor), 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	Quickly	quickly	ADV	_	3 drew	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 drew	nsubj
3	drew	draw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 box	det
5	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drew	obj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 girdle	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 girdle	nmod:poss
8	girdle	girdle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 box	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 took	punct
10	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 pinch	det
12	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 pinch	amod
13	pinch	pinch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 took	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 snuff	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snuff	det
16	snuff	snuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pinch	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 offered	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 offered	cc
19	offered	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 offered	obj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Mansor	case
22	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 offered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 took	punct
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 took	nsubj
25	also	also	ADV	_	26 took	advmod
26	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 Mansor	acl:relcl
27	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 took	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cried	cc
30	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	31 cried	advmod
31	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 drew	conj
32	together	together	ADV	_	31 cried	advmod
33	‘	'	PUNCT	_	34 Mutabor	punct
34	Mutabor	Mutabor	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 cried	obl
35	!	!	PUNCT	_	34 Mutabor	punct
36	’	'	PUNCT	_	31 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	draw	past	Heaven	the box		Heaven's girdle	quickly property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent box=Theme from girdle=Initial_Location
2	take	past	Heaven not said here	a good pinch of the snuff				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pinch=Theme
3	offer	past	Heaven not said here	one	Mansor			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent one=Theme to mansor=Goal
4	take	past	Mansor	one				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
5	cry speech: express	past	Heaven not said here	Mutabor			together property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pinch			the snuff				nom pinch «state transitive»: of=patient

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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