The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 6
He arrived as usual this afternoon, but, contrary to his usual custom, with an anxious face.
Who acts: Vizier · What happens: arrive
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 arrived | nsubj |
| 2 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 usual | case |
| 4 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | obl |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 afternoon | det |
| 6 | afternoon | afternoon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrived | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrary | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 contrary | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 contrary | punct |
| 10 | contrary | contrary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 arrived | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 custom | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 custom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 custom | amod |
| 14 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contrary | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 face | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 face | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 face | det |
| 18 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 face | amod |
| 19 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 contrary | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Vizier | afternoon | as usual | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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