The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 98
The building in which they proposed to pass the night had apparently been formerly a castle.
Who acts: Chasid, night · What happens: propose, pass, have, be · To what, where: building, castle
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, night), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 building | det |
| 2 | building | building | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 which | case |
| 4 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 proposed | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proposed | nsubj |
| 6 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 building | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pass | mark |
| 8 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 proposed | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 night | det |
| 10 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pass | obj |
| 11 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 night | acl |
| 12 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 16 castle | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 castle | cop |
| 14 | formerly | formerly | ADV | _ | 16 castle | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 castle | det |
| 16 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 building | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | propose | past | Chasid | the building | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive | Chasid not said here | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | past | the night not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a | participle | a castle | apparently, formerly property | tree rules |
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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