The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 69

I am to dance to-day before my father’s guests, and I have come to the meadow for a little quiet practice.’

Who acts: I · What happens: dance, come · To what, where: meadow

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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dance	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dance	aux
3	to	to	PART	_	4 dance	mark
4	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 day	case
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 to	punct
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dance	obl
8	before	before	ADP	_	12 guests	case
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 guests	nmod:poss
11	’s	's	PART	_	10 father	case
12	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dance	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 come	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 come	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 come	nsubj
16	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 come	aux
17	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dance	parataxis
18	to	to	ADP	_	20 meadow	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 meadow	det
20	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
21	for	for	ADP	_	25 practice	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 practice	det
23	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 practice	amod
24	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 practice	amod
25	practice	practice	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 come	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dance	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 dance	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	present	I				before my father's guests; day		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before guest=Location
2	come	present · perfect	I			the meadow		for a little quiet practice	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to meadow=Initial_Location

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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