The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 73
‘That was the best joke,’ said he, ‘I’ve ever seen.
Who acts: That, best joke, joke · What happens: be, say, see · To what, where: best joke · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (That, best joke, joke), 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 | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 joke | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 joke | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 joke | det |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 joke | amod |
| 6 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 joke | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 seen | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 seen | nsubj |
| 14 | ’ve | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 seen | aux |
| 15 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 seen | advmod |
| 16 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | That | the best joke | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the best joke | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | see | present · perfect | joke | ever | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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