The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 75
Suddenly, however, the Vizier remembered how strictly they had been warned not to laugh during their transformation.
Who acts: Vizier, Caliph · What happens: remember, warn, not laugh, transform · To what, where: Caliph · 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 (Vizier, Caliph), 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 | Suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 7 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Suddenly | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 remembered | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Vizier | det |
| 6 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 remembered | nsubj |
| 7 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 strictly | advmod |
| 9 | strictly | strictly | ADV | _ | 7 remembered | advmod |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 warned | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 warned | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 warned | aux:pass |
| 13 | warned | warn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 remembered | parataxis |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 laugh | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 laugh | mark |
| 16 | laugh | laugh | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 warned | ccomp |
| 17 | during | during | ADP | _ | 19 transformation | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 transformation | nmod:poss |
| 19 | transformation | transformation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laugh | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 remembered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | the Vizier | however, strictly, suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past · perfect · passive | Caliph | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not laugh | to-infinitive | during Caliph's transformation | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | transform | Caliph | nom transformation «event 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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