The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 97

Chasid listened with favour to his servant’s suggestion, and perceiving in the valley beneath them a ruin which seemed to promise shelter they flew towards it.

Who acts: Chasid, ruin, servant · What happens: listen, perceive, seem, promise, fly, suggest · To what, where: ruin, valley, shelter

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 (Chasid, ruin, servant), 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	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 listened	nsubj
2	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 favour	case
4	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 suggestion	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 servant	nmod:poss
7	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 suggestion	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 servant	case
9	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 listened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 perceiving	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 perceiving	cc
12	perceiving	perceive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 listened	advcl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceiving	obl
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 perceiving	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 ruin	det
19	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 perceiving	obj
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 seemed	nsubj
21	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 ruin	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 promise	mark
23	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 seemed	xcomp
24	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 promise	obj
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flew	nsubj
26	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 shelter	acl:relcl
27	towards	towards	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flew	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	listen	past	Chasid			with favour; to Vizier's servant's suggestion	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suggestion=Theme
2	perceive	gerund	Chasid not said here	a ruin	the valley	beneath Chasid	vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus
3	seem	past	a ruin				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	promise speech: promise	to-infinitive	a ruin not said here	shelter			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme
5	fly	past	Chasid	shelter not said here	shelter		vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme towards it=Destination
6	suggest		Vizier's servant				nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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