The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 95
‘Oh, my Lord!’ gasped the Vizier, after a couple of hours, ‘I can get on no longer; you really fly too quick for me.
Who acts: Lord, I, you · What happens: gasp, get, fly · To what, where: Vizier
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 (Lord, I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 gasped | 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 | 8 gasped | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 8 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Vizier | det |
| 10 | Vizier | Vizier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 gasped | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 couple | punct |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 couple | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 couple | det |
| 14 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gasped | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hours | case |
| 16 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 couple | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 18 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 get | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 get | nsubj |
| 20 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 get | aux |
| 21 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 gasped | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 longer | case |
| 23 | no | no | ADV | _ | 24 longer | advmod |
| 24 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 21 get | obl |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 fly | punct |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 fly | nsubj |
| 27 | really | really | ADV | _ | 28 fly | advmod |
| 28 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 gasped | conj |
| 29 | too | too | ADV | _ | 30 quick | advmod |
| 30 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 fly | advmod |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 me | case |
| 32 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 quick | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gasp | past | my Lord | the Vizier | after a couple of hours | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Topic | |||
| 2 | get | can | I | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on long=Source | |||||
| 3 | fly | present | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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