The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 93
They rose from the palace roof, and spread their wings toward Medina.
Who acts: Mirza · What happens: rise, spread · To what, where: palace roof, wings
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 (Mirza), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rose | nsubj |
| 2 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 5 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roof | compound |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rose | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 spread | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 spread | cc |
| 9 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rose | conj |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 wings | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spread | obj |
| 12 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 13 Medina | case |
| 13 | Medina | Medina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 spread | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | Mirza | the palace roof | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from roof=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | Mirza not said here | Mirza's wings | toward Medina | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location wing=Theme |
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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