The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 77
Do just try and remember the stupid word, it has slipped my memory.’
Who acts: you · What happens: try, remember, slip · To what, where: stupid word, doubt · 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 (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | aux |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 try | advmod |
| 3 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 remember | cc |
| 5 | remember | remember | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 try | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 remember | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 slipped | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 slipped | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 slipped | aux |
| 12 | slipped | slip | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 remember | ccomp |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 memory | nmod:poss |
| 14 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 slipped | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 try | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | remember | infinitive | you not said here | the stupid word | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent word=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | slip | present · perfect · passive | doubt | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Destination memory=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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