The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 57

‘My very humble thanks,’ replied the Grand Vizier, as he bent his long neck; ‘but, if I may venture to say so, your Highness is even handsomer as a stork than as a Caliph.

Who acts: Vizier, I, Highness · What happens: reply, bend, venture, say, be · To what, where: humble thanks, long neck · 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 (Vizier, I, Highness), 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	_	8 replied	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 thanks	nmod:poss
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 humble	advmod
4	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thanks	amod
5	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obl:unmarked
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 thanks	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Vizier	det
10	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Vizier	amod
11	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bent	punct
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 bent	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bent	nsubj
15	bent	bend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 replied	conj
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 neck	nmod:poss
17	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 neck	amod
18	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bent	obj
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct
20	‘	'	PUNCT	_	26 venture	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 venture	cc
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 venture	punct
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 venture	mark
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 venture	nsubj
25	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 venture	aux
26	venture	venture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 replied	advcl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 say	mark
28	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 venture	xcomp
29	so	so	ADV	_	35 handsomer	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 handsomer	punct
31	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 Highness	nmod:poss
32	Highness	highness	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 handsomer	nsubj
33	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	35 handsomer	cop
34	even	even	ADV	_	35 handsomer	advmod
35	handsomer	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 say	parataxis
36	as	as	ADP	_	38 stork	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 stork	det
38	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 handsomer	obl
39	than	than	ADP	_	42 Caliph	case
40	as	as	ADP	_	42 Caliph	case
41	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 Caliph	det
42	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 handsomer	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past		My humble thanks		vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent vizier=Topic
2	bend	past	Vizier	Vizier's long neck		vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material
3	venture a condition, not said to happen	may	I			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	present	your Highness		as a stork; than a Caliph; handsome property	tree rules

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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