The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 54

Instantly their legs shrivelled up and grew thin and red; their smart yellow slippers turned to clumsy stork’s feet, their arms to wings; their necks began to sprout from between their shoulders and grew a yard long; their beards disappeared, and their bodies were covered with feathers.

Who acts: smart yellow slippers, necks, beards · What happens: shrivell up, grow, turn, begin, sprout, disappear · To what, where: legs, feet, shoulders, yard, bodies

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 (smart yellow slippers, necks, beards), 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	Instantly	instantly	ADV	_	4 shrivelled	advmod
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 legs	nmod:poss
3	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shrivelled	nsubj:pass
4	shrivelled	shrivell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 shrivelled	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 grew	cc
7	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrivelled	conj
8	thin	thin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 grew	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 red	cc
10	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thin	conj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 turned	punct
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 slippers	nmod:poss
13	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 slippers	amod
14	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 slippers	amod
15	slippers	slipper	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turned	nsubj
16	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrivelled	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 feet	case
18	clumsy	clumsy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stork	amod
19	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 feet	nmod:poss
20	’s	's	PART	_	19 stork	case
21	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turned	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 arms	punct
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 arms	nmod:poss
24	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 feet	conj
25	to	to	ADP	_	26 wings	case
26	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 turned	obl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 began	punct
28	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 necks	nmod:poss
29	necks	neck	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 began	nsubj
30	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrivelled	parataxis
31	to	to	PART	_	32 sprout	mark
32	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 began	xcomp
33	from	from	ADP	_	36 shoulders	case
34	between	between	ADP	_	36 shoulders	case
35	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 shoulders	nmod:poss
36	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 sprout	obl
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 grew	cc
38	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 began	conj
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 yard	det
40	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 grew	obj
41	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 grew	advmod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 disappeared	punct
43	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	44 beards	nmod:poss
44	beards	beard	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 disappeared	nsubj
45	disappeared	disappear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 shrivelled	parataxis
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 covered	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	51 covered	cc
48	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 bodies	nmod:poss
49	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 covered	nsubj:pass
50	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 covered	aux:pass
51	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	45 disappeared	conj
52	with	with	ADP	_	53 feathers	case
53	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	51 covered	obl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 shrivelled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	shrivell up	participle · passive		Caliph's legs		instantly property	tree rules
2	grow	past				thin property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	turn	past	Caliph's smart yellow slippers		clumsy stork's feet and Caliph's arms	to wings	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to foot=Source to wing=Trajectory
4	begin	past	Caliph's necks				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	sprout	to-infinitive	Caliph's necks not said here		Caliph's shoulders		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP.theme V PP.source»: agent=Theme from shoulder=Source
6	grow	past	Caliph's necks not said here	a yard		long property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yard=Theme
7	disappear	past	Caliph's beards				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	cover	past · passive		Caliph's bodies		with feathers	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with feather=Theme

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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