The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 8
The Grand Vizier crossed his arms on his breast and bent low before his master as he answered:
Who acts: Grand Vizier, Vizier · What happens: cross, bend, answer · To what, where: arms, breast, master
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 (Grand Vizier, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Vizier | det |
| 2 | Grand | Grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Vizier | amod |
| 3 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | nsubj |
| 4 | crossed | cross | 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 arms | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 crossed | obj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 breast | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 breast | nmod:poss |
| 9 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crossed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bent | cc |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 crossed | conj |
| 12 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 bent | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 master | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 master | nmod:poss |
| 15 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bent | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 answered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 bent | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 crossed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cross | past | the Grand Vizier | Vizier's arms | Vizier's breast | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient | |||
| 2 | bend | participle | the Grand Vizier not said here | Vizier's master | low property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before master=Location | |||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | Vizier | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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