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title: The Caliph stood still and distinctly heard a low weeping sound whic… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Caliph stood still and distinctly heard a low weeping sound which seemed to proceed from a human being rather than from any animal. Who acts: Caliph, low weeping sound. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 102

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The Caliph stood still and distinctly heard a low weeping sound which seemed to proceed from a human being rather than from any animal.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, low weeping sound · **What happens:** stand, hear, seem, proceed, be · **To what, where:** low weeping sound

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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, low weeping sound), 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:pg7277:7:102
# text = The Caliph stood still and distinctly heard a low weeping sound which seemed to proceed from a human being rather than from any animal.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stood	stand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	distinctly	distinctly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
9	low	low	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	weeping	weeping	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	proceed	proceed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
18	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	cop	_	_
20	rather	rather	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	24	cc	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	20	fixed	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	24	det	_	_
24	animal	animal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stand** | past | the Caliph |  |  |  | still |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **hear** | past | the Caliph *not said here* | a low weeping sound |  |  |  | distinctly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a low weeping sound |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **proceed** | to-infinitive | a low weeping sound *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | from a human animal | tree rules |

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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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