The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 70
Thereupon the young stork began to move about with the most wonderful steps.
Who acts: young stork · What happens: begin, move about
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 (young stork), 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 | Thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 5 began | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 stork | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stork | amod |
| 4 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 began | nsubj |
| 5 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 move | mark |
| 7 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 began | xcomp |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 7 move | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 steps | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 steps | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 12 wonderful | advmod |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 steps | amod |
| 13 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 move | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | the young stork | thereupon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | move about | to-infinitive | the young stork not said here | with the wonderful steps; about property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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