The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 83

They could not rid themselves of their new forms; there was no use in returning to the town and saying who they were; for who would believe a stork who announced that he was a Caliph; and even if they did believe him, would the people of Bagdad consent to let a stork rule over them?

Who acts: Mu, use, stork · What happens: not rid, be, return, say, believe, announce · To what, where: Mu, stork, Caliph, use, stork rule · 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, use, stork), 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	4 rid	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 rid	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 rid	advmod
4	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 rid	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 forms	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 forms	nmod:poss
8	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 forms	amod
9	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 rid	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 was	punct
11	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	12 was	expl
12	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rid	parataxis
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 use	det
14	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 was	nsubj
15	in	in	SCONJ	_	16 returning	mark
16	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 use	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 town	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 town	det
19	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 returning	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saying	cc
21	saying	say	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 returning	conj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 saying	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 who	nsubj
24	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 who	cop
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 believe	punct
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	29 believe	mark
27	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 believe	nsubj
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 believe	aux
29	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 rid	parataxis
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 stork	det
31	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 believe	obj
32	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	33 announced	nsubj
33	announced	announce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 stork	acl:relcl
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 Caliph	mark
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 Caliph	nsubj
36	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 Caliph	cop
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 Caliph	det
38	Caliph	caliph	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 announced	ccomp
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 believe	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 believe	cc
41	even	even	ADV	_	45 believe	advmod
42	if	if	SCONJ	_	45 believe	mark
43	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 believe	nsubj
44	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 believe	aux
45	believe	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 believe	conj
46	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 believe	obj
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 people	punct
48	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	50 people	aux
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 people	det
50	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 believe	obl
51	of	of	ADP	_	53 consent	case
52	Bagdad	bagdad	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 consent	compound
53	consent	consent	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 people	nmod
54	to	to	PART	_	55 let	mark
55	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 believe	ccomp
56	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 rule	det
57	stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 rule	compound
58	rule	rule	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 let	obj
59	over	over	ADP	_	60 them	case
60	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 let	obl
61	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 rid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not rid	could	Mu	Mu		of Mu's new forms	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Source of form=Theme
2	be	past	no use		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	return	gerund	no use not said here			to the town result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result
4	say speech: assert	gerund	no use not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is a	past	Mu				tree rules
6	believe	would		a stork			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stork=Stimulus
7	announce speech: other	past	a stork				vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	use	a Caliph			tree rules
9	believe a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	Mu	use		the people of Bagdad consent obl	tree rules
10	let	to-infinitive		a stork rule		over Mu	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Theme
11	form		Mu				nom form «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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