The Green Fairy Book, Sylvain and Jocosa, sentence 48

Then the difficulty arose as to how the bird was to be cooked; for among all his army of servants not one could Badi-al-Zaman trust.

Who acts: difficulty, one · What happens: arise, cook, not trust · To what, where: bird

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Sylvain and Jocosa. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (difficulty, one), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 arose	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 difficulty	det
3	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	nsubj
4	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 cooked	mark
6	to	to	ADP	_	5 as	fixed
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 cooked	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 cooked	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 cooked	aux
11	to	to	PART	_	13 cooked	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 cooked	aux:pass
13	cooked	cook	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 arose	ccomp
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 army	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 army	case
16	among	among	ADP	_	19 army	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 army	det:predet
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 army	nmod:poss
19	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 servants	case
21	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 army	nmod
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 trust	advmod
23	one	one	PRON	Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 trust	nsubj
24	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 trust	aux
25	Badi	Badi	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 trust	compound
26	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 al	punct
27	al	Al	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 Badi	appos
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 Zaman	punct
29	Zaman	Zaman	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 al	flat
30	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	arise	past	the difficulty		then	for Bird's army of servants	tree rules
2	cook	past · passive		the bird			vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient
3	not trust	could	one				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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