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title: The Caliph, who had wished for some time past to give his Grand Vizi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Caliph, who had wished for some time past to give his Grand Vizier a present, ordered his black slave to bring the pedlar before him at once. Who acts: Caliph, black slave. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 10

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The Caliph, who had wished for some time past to give his Grand Vizier a present, ordered his black slave to bring the pedlar before him at once.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, black slave · **What happens:** wish, give, order, bring · **To what, where:** present, Grand Vizier, black slave, pedlar

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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 (Caliph, black slave), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**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 {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg7277:7:10
# text = The Caliph, who had wished for some time past to give his Grand Vizier a present, ordered his black slave to bring the pedlar before him at once.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	wished	wish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	acl	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	past	past	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
19	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	pedlar	pedlar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wish** | past · perfect | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | for some time past | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for past=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | to-infinitive | the Caliph *not said here* | a present | Vizier's Grand Vizier |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent vizier=Recipient present=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | past | the Caliph | Vizier's black slave |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **bring** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Vizier's black slave *not said here* | the pedlar |  |  | before Vizier |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pedlar=Theme before he=Destination |

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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.

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**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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