The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 9
‘Oh, my Lord! whether my countenance be anxious or not I know not, but down below, in the court of the palace, is a pedlar with such beautiful things that I cannot help feeling annoyed at having so little money to spare.’
Who acts: countenance, Lord, I, such beautiful things · What happens: be, not know, not help, feel, have, spare · To what, where: pedlar, such beautiful things, little money
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 (countenance, Lord, I, such beautiful things), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Lord | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 Lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 know | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 7 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 anxious | mark |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 9 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anxious | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 anxious | cop |
| 11 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Lord | advcl |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 not | cc |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 anxious | conj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 know | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 down | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 down | cc |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 know | advmod |
| 20 | below | below | ADV | _ | 19 down | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 court | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 court | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 court | det |
| 24 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 know | parataxis |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 palace | det |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 court | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pedlar | punct |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 pedlar | cop |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 pedlar | det |
| 31 | pedlar | pedlar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 court | appos |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 things | case |
| 33 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 things | amod |
| 34 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 things | amod |
| 35 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pedlar | nmod |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 help | obj |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 help | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 help | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 help | advmod |
| 40 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 things | acl:relcl |
| 41 | feeling | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 40 help | xcomp |
| 42 | annoyed | annoyed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 feeling | xcomp |
| 43 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 44 having | mark |
| 44 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 41 feeling | advcl |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 little | advmod |
| 46 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 money | amod |
| 47 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 having | obj |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 spare | mark |
| 49 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 having | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 31 pedlar | punct |
| 51 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 court | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | my countenance | anxious property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | my Lord | down property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a pedlar | with such beautiful things | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not help | can | I | such beautiful things | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel not said to happen | gerund | such beautiful things not said here | annoyed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | have | gerund | such beautiful things not said here | little money | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | ||||
| 7 | spare | to-infinitive | such beautiful things not said here | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=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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