The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 78

‘We must bow three times eastwards and say “Mu...mu...mu...”’

Who acts: We · What happens: bow, say · To what, where: times eastwards, Mu · 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 (We), 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	_	4 bow	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 bow	nsubj
3	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 bow	aux
4	bow	bow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 times	nummod
6	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 eastwards	compound
7	eastwards	eastward	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 bow	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 say	cc
9	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bow	conj
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 Mu	punct
11	Mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	obj
12	...	...	PUNCT	_	13 mu	punct
13	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Mu	conj
14	...	...	PUNCT	_	15 mu	punct
15	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 Mu	conj
16	...	...	PUNCT	_	4 bow	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 bow	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 bow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bow	must	We	times eastwards					vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eastward=Topic
2	say speech: assert	infinitive	We not said here	Mu and mu and mu					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mu=Topic

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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