The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 56
‘By the beard of the Prophet I never saw such a thing in all my life!’
Who acts: I · What happens: not see · To what, where: thing, life
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 4 beard | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 beard | det |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Prophet | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Prophet | det |
| 7 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 beard | nmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 10 saw | advmod |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 thing | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 life | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 life | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 life | nmod:poss |
| 17 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past | I | such thing | my life | by the beard of the Prophet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus |
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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