--- title: They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched the ground, but, oh, horror—the magic word was quite forgotten, and however often the Caliph bowed and however touchingly his Vizier cried “Mu—mu——” they could not recall it, and the unhappy Chasid and Mansor remained storks as they --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/10/6/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [The Jade Story Book; Stories from the…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/) / [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/10/) / 6 # The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 6 They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched the ground, but, oh, horror—the magic word was quite forgotten, and however often the Caliph bowed and however touchingly his Vizier cried “Mu—mu——” they could not recall it, and the unhappy Chasid and Mansor remained storks as they were. **Who acts:** Mu, bills, horror, Caliph, Vizier, unhappy Chasid · **What happens:** turn, fall, touch, forget, bow, cry · **To what, where:** east, ground, magic word, Mu, word, storks · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mu, bills, horror, Caliph), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:10:6 # text = They turned to the east and fell to bowing till their bills touched the ground, but, oh, horror—the magic word was quite forgotten, and however often the Caliph bowed and however touchingly his Vizier cried “Mu—mu——” they could not recall it, and the unhappy Chasid and Mansor remained storks as they were. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 turned turn VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 east east NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 fell fall VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 to to ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 bowing bowing NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ _ 10 till till SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 11 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 bills bill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 nsubj _ _ 13 touched touch VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 advcl _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 17 but but CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 19 oh oh INTJ UH _ 21 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 21 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 22 — - PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 24 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 25 amod _ _ 25 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 nsubj:pass _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux:pass _ _ 27 quite quite ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ _ 28 forgotten forget VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 31 however however ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 32 often often ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 Caliph Caliph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 35 nsubj _ _ 35 bowed bow VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 parataxis _ _ 36 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 37 however however ADV RB _ 38 advmod _ _ 38 touchingly touchingly ADV RB _ 41 advmod _ _ 39 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 Vizier Vizier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ _ 41 cried cry VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 42 “ " PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 43 Mu mu NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 44 — - PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 45 mu mu NOUN NN Number=Sing 43 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 46 — - PUNCT : _ 45 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 47 — - PUNCT : _ 43 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ” " PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 49 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 nsubj _ _ 50 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 52 aux _ _ 51 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 52 advmod _ _ 52 recall recall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 41 ccomp _ _ 53 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 52 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 54 , , PUNCT , _ 61 punct _ _ 55 and and CCONJ CC _ 61 cc _ _ 56 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 58 det _ _ 57 unhappy unhappy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 58 amod _ _ 58 Chasid Chasid PROPN NNP Number=Sing 61 nsubj _ _ 59 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 60 Mansor Mansor PROPN NNP Number=Sing 58 conj _ _ 61 remained remain VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 conj _ _ 62 storks stork NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obj _ _ 63 as as SCONJ IN _ 65 mark _ _ 64 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 65 nsubj _ _ 65 were be VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 61 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 66 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **turn** | past | Mu | | | the east | | horror *parataxis* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to east=Trajectory | | 2 | **fall** | past | Mu *not said here* | | | | | to bowing | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bowing=Theme | | 3 | **touch** | past | Mu's bills | the ground | | | | | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Co-Theme | | 4 | **forget** | past · passive | horror *not said here* | the magic word | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **bow** | past | the Caliph | | | | | however *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | Caliph's Vizier | Mu | | | | touchingly *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **not** **recall** | could | Mu | word | | | | | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | | 8 | **remain** | past | the unhappy Chasid and Mansor | storks | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme stork=Attribute | | 9 | **be** | past | Mu | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 10 | **bill** | | Mu | | | | | | nom bill «communication transitive»: 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 Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/10/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/10/7/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/10/)