The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 67
‘A thousand thanks, but I have really no appetite this morning.
Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: appetite
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 | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 thanks | det |
| 3 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thanks | nummod |
| 4 | thanks | thanks | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 have | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 have | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 have | nsubj |
| 8 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thanks | parataxis |
| 9 | really | really | ADV | _ | 11 appetite | advmod |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 appetite | det |
| 11 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obj |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 morning | det |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 have | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thanks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | I | no appetite | morning | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appetite=Patient |
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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