The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 84
So they lounged about for several days, supporting themselves on fruits, which, however, they found some difficulty in eating with their long bills.
Who acts: Mu, fruits, difficulty · What happens: lounge, support, find, eat, bill · To what, where: Mu, fruits, difficulty
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, fruits, difficulty), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 lounged | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 lounged | nsubj |
| 3 | lounged | lounge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 lounged | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 days | case |
| 6 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 days | amod |
| 7 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 lounged | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 supporting | punct |
| 9 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 lounged | advcl |
| 10 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 supporting | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 fruits | case |
| 12 | fruits | fruit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 supporting | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 found | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 which | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fruits | acl:relcl |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 difficulty | det |
| 21 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 eating | mark |
| 23 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 difficulty | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 bills | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bills | nmod:poss |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 bills | amod |
| 27 | bills | bill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eating | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 lounged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lounge | past | Mu | day | about property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | support | gerund | Mu not said here | Mu | fruits | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer themselves=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | find | past | fruits | some difficulty | however property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent difficulty=Topic | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund | some difficulty not said here | with Mu's long bills | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | 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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