The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 87

During the first few days they noticed signs of much disturbance and distress in the streets, but about the fourth day, as they sat on the roof of the palace, they perceived a splendid procession passing below them along the street.

Who acts: Mu, splendid procession · What happens: notice, sit, perceive, pass, sign · To what, where: signs, roof, splendid procession, much disturbance

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, splendid procession), 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	During	during	ADP	_	5 days	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
3	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 days	amod
4	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 days	amod
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noticed	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 noticed	nsubj
7	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 noticed	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 disturbance	case
10	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 disturbance	amod
11	disturbance	disturbance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 signs	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 distress	cc
13	distress	distress	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 disturbance	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 streets	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 streets	det
16	streets	street	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 distress	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 day	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 day	cc
19	about	about	ADP	_	22 day	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
21	fourth	fourth	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	22 day	amod
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 noticed	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 sat	punct
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 sat	mark
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 sat	nsubj
26	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 noticed	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 roof	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 roof	det
29	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 sat	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 palace	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 palace	det
32	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 roof	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 perceived	punct
34	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 perceived	nsubj
35	perceived	perceive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 noticed	conj
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 procession	det
37	splendid	splendid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 procession	amod
38	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 perceived	obj
39	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 procession	acl
40	below	below	ADP	_	41 them	case
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 passing	obl
42	along	along	ADP	_	44 street	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 street	det
44	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 passing	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 noticed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	notice	past	Mu	signs of much disturbance and distress in the streets		day		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus
2	sit	past	Mu		the roof of the palace			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
3	perceive	past	Mu	a splendid procession				vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer procession=Stimulus
4	pass	gerund	a splendid procession not said here				below Mu; along the street	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme below they=Location
5	sign			much disturbance and distress in the streets				nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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