The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 96
Besides, it is nearly evening, and we should do well to find some place in which to spend the night.’
Who acts: couple, we · What happens: be, do, find, spend · To what, where: evening, place
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 (couple, we), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 6 evening | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 evening | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | cop |
| 5 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 6 evening | advmod |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 do | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 do | cc |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 do | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 do | aux |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 evening | acl:relcl |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 do | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 do | advcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 spend | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 spend | mark |
| 20 | spend | spend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 spend | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 evening | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | couple | evening | nearly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | do | should | we | evening not said here | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent evening=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | we not said here | some place | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 4 | spend | to-infinitive | we not said here | some place not said here | some place | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: 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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