The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 61
The two newly made storks lost no time in drawing near, and to their amazement overheard the following conversation:
Who acts: two made storks, time, storks · What happens: make, lose, draw, overhear, follow, amaze · To what, where: following conversation
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 (two made storks, time, storks), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 storks | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 storks | nummod |
| 3 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 storks | amod |
| 5 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lost | obj |
| 9 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 10 drawing | mark |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 time | acl |
| 11 | near | near | ADV | _ | 10 drawing | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overheard | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 overheard | cc |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 amazement | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 amazement | nmod:poss |
| 16 | amazement | amazement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overheard | obl |
| 17 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 lost | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 conversation | det |
| 19 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 conversation | amod |
| 20 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overheard | obj |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 lost | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | participle | newly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 2 | lose | past | the two made storks | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | no time not said here | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | overhear | past | the two made storks not said here | the following conversation | to storks's amazement | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 6 | amaze | storks = stork | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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