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title: When the Caliph had recovered from his surprise, he drew up his feet… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: When the Caliph had recovered from his surprise, he drew up his feet into a graceful position, bent his long neck, and said: ‘Oh, screech owl! from your words I am led to believe that we see in you a companion in misfortune. Who acts: Caliph, piece, I, we. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by And
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 113

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When the Caliph had recovered from his surprise, he drew up his feet into a graceful position, bent his long neck, and said: ‘Oh, screech owl! from your words I am led to believe that we see in you a companion in misfortune.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, piece, I, we, your · **What happens:** recover, draw up, bend, say, lead, believe · **To what, where:** surprise, feet, graceful position, long neck, I, companion · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, piece, I, we), 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:pg7277:7:113
# text = When the Caliph had recovered from his surprise, he drew up his feet into a graceful position, bent his long neck, and said: ‘Oh, screech owl! from your words I am led to believe that we see in you a companion in misfortune.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	surprise	surprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	into	into	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	position	position	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bent	bend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	neck	neck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
28	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	32	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	Oh	oh	INTJ	UH	_	32	discourse	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
31	screech	screech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	owl	owl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	32	punct	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
37	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
38	am	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl:relcl	_	_
40	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
41	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	xcomp	_	_
42	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	44	mark	_	_
43	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	44	nsubj	_	_
44	see	see	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
45	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs	44	obl	_	_
47	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · perfect | the Caliph |  |  | piece's surprise |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source |
| 2 | **draw up** | past | piece | piece's feet |  |  |  | into a graceful position *result* | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent foot=Patient into position=Result |
| 3 | **bend** | past | piece *not said here* | piece's long neck |  |  |  |  | vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent neck=Material |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | piece *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **lead** | present · passive |  | I |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result |
| 6 | **believe** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **see** | present | we | a companion |  | misfortune |  | in you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer companion=Stimulus |
| 8 | **surprise** |  | piece |  |  |  |  |  | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
| 9 | **word** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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