The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 58

But come, if it so pleases you, let us go near our comrades there and find out whether we really do understand the language of storks.’

Who acts: you, Highness, us, we · What happens: come, please, let, go, find out, understand · To what, where: you, us, comrades, language

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, Highness, us, we), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	2 come	cc
2	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 pleases	punct
4	if	if	SCONJ	_	7 pleases	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 pleases	nsubj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 pleases	advmod
7	pleases	please	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 come	parataxis
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 pleases	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 let	punct
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 pleases	conj
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	xcomp
13	near	near	ADP	_	15 comrades	case
14	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 comrades	nmod:poss
15	comrades	comrade	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 go	obl
16	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 go	advmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 find	cc
18	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 let	conj
19	out	out	ADP	_	18 find	compound:prt
20	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 understand	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 understand	nsubj
22	really	really	ADV	_	24 understand	advmod
23	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 understand	aux
24	understand	understand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 find	advcl
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 language	det
26	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 understand	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 storks	case
28	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 language	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct
30	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	come	imperative	you not said here			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	please	present	Highness	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
3	let	infinitive	Highness not said here	us		tree rules
4	go	infinitive	us not said here		our comrades; there	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme near comrade=Location
5	find out	infinitive	Highness not said here			vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent
6	understand	present · do-support	we	the language of storks		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=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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