The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 76

He at once communicated his fears to the Caliph, who exclaimed, ‘By Mecca and Medina! it would indeed prove but a poor joke if I had to remain a stork for the remainder of my days!

Who acts: Vizier, Caliph, doubt, I · What happens: communicate, exclaim, prove, have, remain, fear · To what, where: fears, Caliph, stork

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, doubt, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 communicated	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 communicated	obl
4	communicated	communicate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fears	nmod:poss
6	fears	fear	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 communicated	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 Caliph	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Caliph	det
9	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 communicated	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 exclaimed	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 exclaimed	nsubj
12	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Caliph	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prove	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 prove	punct
15	By	by	ADP	_	16 Mecca	case
16	Mecca	Mecca	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 prove	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Medina	cc
18	Medina	Medina	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Mecca	conj
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Mecca	punct
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prove	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 prove	aux
22	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	23 prove	advmod
23	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 communicated	advcl
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 joke	cc
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 joke	det
26	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 joke	amod
27	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 prove	conj
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 prove	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 remain	mark
32	remain	remain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 had	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 stork	det
34	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remain	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	37 remainder	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 remainder	det
37	remainder	remainder	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 remain	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 days	case
39	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 days	nmod:poss
40	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 remainder	nmod
41	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 communicated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	communicate	past	Vizier	Vizier's fears	the Caliph		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent fear=Topic to caliph=Recipient
2	exclaim speech: express	past	the Caliph				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
3	prove	would	doubt			by Mecca and Medina; indeed property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have a condition, not said to happen	past	I				tree rules
5	remain	to-infinitive	I not said here	a stork		for the remainder of my days	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute
6	fear		Vizier				nom fear «feeling 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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