The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 55
‘You’ve got a fine long bill, Sir Vizier,’ cried the Caliph, after standing for some time lost in astonishment.
Who acts: You · What happens: get, cry, stand, lose · To what, where: fine long bill, Caliph, time, astonishment
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), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | ’ve | 've | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 bill | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bill | amod |
| 7 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bill | amod |
| 8 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sir | punct |
| 10 | Sir | Sir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 bill | appos |
| 11 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sir | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 cried | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Caliph | det |
| 16 | Caliph | Caliph | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 standing | punct |
| 18 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 19 standing | mark |
| 19 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 cried | advcl |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 21 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 time | det |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 standing | obl |
| 23 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 time | acl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 astonishment | case |
| 25 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lost | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | You | a fine long bill | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | You not said here | the Caliph | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | You not said here | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | lose | participle | some time not said here | astonishment | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in astonishment=Eventuality |
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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