The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 82
In their misery they could not think what to do next.
Who acts: Mu · What happens: not think, do · To what, where: misery · 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 (Mu), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 misery | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 misery | nmod:poss |
| 3 | misery | misery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 think | obl |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 think | nsubj |
| 5 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 think | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 think | advmod |
| 7 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 think | ccomp |
| 11 | next | next | ADV | _ | 10 do | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not think speech: other | could | Mu | Mu's misery | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | next property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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