The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 71

The Caliph and Mansor looked on in surprise for some time; but when at last she balanced herself in a picturesque attitude on one leg, and flapped her wings gracefully up and down, they could hold out no longer; a prolonged peal burst from each of their bills, and it was some time before they could recover their composure.

Who acts: Caliph, Mansor, bill · What happens: look on, balance, flap, hold out, prolong, be · To what, where: Mansor, picturesque attitude, wings, time, composure

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 (Caliph, Mansor, bill), 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	2 Caliph	det
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 looked	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 Mansor	cc
4	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Caliph	conj
5	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	5 looked	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 surprise	case
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 time	case
10	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	11 time	det
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	obl
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 balanced	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 balanced	cc
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 last	advmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 last	case
16	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 balanced	xcomp
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 balanced	nsubj
18	balanced	balance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	conj
19	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 balanced	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 attitude	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 attitude	det
22	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 attitude	amod
23	attitude	attitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 balanced	obl
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 leg	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 leg	nummod
26	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 balanced	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 flapped	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 flapped	cc
29	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 looked	parataxis
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 wings	nmod:poss
31	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 flapped	obj
32	gracefully	gracefully	ADV	_	33 up	advmod
33	up	up	ADV	_	29 flapped	advmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 down	cc
35	down	down	ADV	_	33 up	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 hold	punct
37	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 hold	nsubj
38	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 hold	aux
39	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 flapped	conj
40	out	out	ADP	_	39 hold	compound:prt
41	no	no	ADV	_	42 longer	advmod
42	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	39 hold	advmod
43	;	;	PUNCT	_	47 burst	punct
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	47 burst	det
45	prolonged	prolong	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	47 burst	amod
46	peal	peal	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 burst	compound
47	burst	burst	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 looked	parataxis
48	from	from	ADP	_	49 each	case
49	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	47 burst	nmod
50	of	of	ADP	_	52 bills	case
51	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 bills	nmod:poss
52	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 each	nmod
53	,	,	PUNCT	_	58 time	punct
54	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 time	cc
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 time	nsubj
56	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 time	cop
57	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	58 time	det
58	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 burst	conj
59	before	before	SCONJ	_	62 recover	mark
60	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 recover	nsubj
61	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	62 recover	aux
62	recover	recover	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 time	acl
63	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	64 composure	nmod:poss
64	composure	composure	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 recover	obj
65	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look on	past	the Caliph and Mansor			time	in surprise	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme
2	balance	past	Mansor	Mansor	a picturesque attitude		on one leg; last property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme in attitude=Location
3	flap	past		Mansor's wings				vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	hold out	could	Caliph				long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	prolong	participle						vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent
6	is a	past	bill	some time				tree rules
7	recover	could	Caliph	Caliph's composure				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent composure=Theme
8	bill		Caliph					nom bill «communication 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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