The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 86

Their one comfort in their sad plight was the power of flying, and accordingly they often flew over the roofs of Bagdad to see what was going on there.

Who acts: one comfort, power, Mu · What happens: be, fly, see, go, comfort, plight · To what, where: power, roofs, sad plight · 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 (one comfort, power, 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 comfort	nmod:poss
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 comfort	nummod
3	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 power	nsubj
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 plight	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 plight	nmod:poss
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plight	amod
7	plight	plight	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 comfort	nmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 power	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 power	det
10	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	of	of	SCONJ	_	12 flying	mark
12	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 power	acl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flew	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 flew	cc
15	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	18 flew	advmod
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flew	nsubj
17	often	often	ADV	_	18 flew	advmod
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 power	conj
19	over	over	ADP	_	21 roofs	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 roofs	det
21	roofs	roof	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 flew	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 Bagdad	case
23	Bagdad	Bagdad	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 roofs	nmod
24	to	to	PART	_	25 see	mark
25	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 flew	advcl
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 going	nsubj
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 going	aux
28	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 see	ccomp
29	on	on	ADP	_	30 there	case
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 going	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 power	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mu's one comfort in Mu's sad plight	the power			tree rules
2	fly	gerund	the power not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	Mu		the roofs of Bagdad	accordingly, often property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roof=Location
4	see	to-infinitive	Mu not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	go	past · progressive					vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on there=Location
6	comfort		Mu		Mu's sad plight		nom comfort «state transitive»: poss=agent in=place
7	plight		Mu				nom plight «state 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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