The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 89

The two storks on the palace roof looked at each other, and Caliph Chasid said, ‘Can you guess now, Grand Vizier, why I have been enchanted?

Who acts: two storks, Caliph, you · What happens: look, say, guess, enchant · To what, where: Grand Vizier, I · 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 (two storks, Caliph, you), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 storks	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 storks	nummod
3	storks	stork	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 looked	nsubj
4	on	on	ADP	_	7 roof	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 roof	det
6	palace	palace	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 roof	compound
7	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 storks	nmod
8	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 looked	obl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 said	cc
14	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
15	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 Caliph	flat
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 looked	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	21 guess	punct
19	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 guess	aux
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 guess	nsubj
21	guess	guess	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	ccomp
22	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 guess	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Vizier	punct
24	Grand	Grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 Vizier	amod
25	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 guess	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 enchanted	punct
27	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	31 enchanted	advmod
28	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 enchanted	nsubj
29	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 enchanted	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 enchanted	aux:pass
31	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 guess	conj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	the two storks on the palace roof			at each	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at each=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Caliph				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	guess	can	you	Grand Vizier	now		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	enchant	present · perfect · passive		I			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer

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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