The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 79

They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched the ground, but, oh horror--the magic word was quite forgotten, and however often the Caliph bowed and however touchingly his Vizier cried ‘Mu...mu...’ they could not recall it, and the unhappy Chasid and Mansor remained storks as they were.

Who acts: Mu, bills, Caliph, Vizier, unhappy Chasid · What happens: turn, fall, touch, forget, bow, cry · To what, where: east, ground, horror, Mu, storks

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 (Mu, bills, Caliph, Vizier), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 east	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 east	det
5	east	east	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bowing	case
9	bowing	bowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl
10	till	till	SCONJ	_	13 touched	mark
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bills	nmod:poss
12	bills	bill	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 touched	nsubj
13	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fell	advcl
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 touched	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 forgotten	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 forgotten	cc
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 horror	punct
19	oh	oh	INTJ	_	20 horror	discourse
20	horror	horror	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 forgotten	nsubj
21	--	--	PUNCT	_	24 word	punct
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 word	det
23	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 word	amod
24	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 horror	conj
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 forgotten	aux:pass
26	quite	quite	ADV	_	27 forgotten	advmod
27	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 turned	conj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 bowed	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 bowed	cc
30	however	however	ADV	_	31 often	advmod
31	often	often	ADV	_	34 bowed	advmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Caliph	det
33	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 bowed	nsubj
34	bowed	bow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 forgotten	parataxis
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 cried	cc
36	however	however	ADV	_	37 touchingly	advmod
37	touchingly	touchingly	ADV	_	40 cried	advmod
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 Vizier	nmod:poss
39	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	40 cried	nsubj
40	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 bowed	conj
41	‘	'	PUNCT	_	42 Mu	punct
42	Mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 cried	obj
43	...	...	PUNCT	_	44 mu	punct
44	mu	mu	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 Mu	conj
45	...	...	PUNCT	_	50 recall	punct
46	’	'	PUNCT	_	50 recall	punct
47	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 recall	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 recall	aux
49	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	50 recall	advmod
50	recall	recall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 forgotten	advcl
51	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 recall	obj
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 remained	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 remained	cc
54	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Chasid	det
55	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	56 Chasid	amod
56	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	59 remained	nsubj
57	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 Mansor	cc
58	Mansor	Mansor	PROPN	Number=Sing	56 Chasid	conj
59	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
60	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 remained	obj
61	as	as	SCONJ	_	63 were	mark
62	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	63 were	nsubj
63	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 remained	advcl
64	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Mu		the east		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to east=Trajectory
2	fall	past	Mu not said here			to bowing	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bowing=Theme
3	touch	past	Mu's bills	the ground			vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme
4	forget	past · passive		horror and the magic word			tree rules
5	bow	past	the Caliph			often property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	cry speech: express	past	word's Vizier	Mu and mu		touchingly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mu=Topic
7	not recall	could	Mu	ground			vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	remain	past	the unhappy Chasid and Mansor	storks			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute
9	be	past	Mu				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	bill		Mu				nom bill «communication 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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