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title: She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most probably the magicians would meet that very night. Who acts: magician, Caliph, most magicians. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 152

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She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most probably the magicians would meet that very night.

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**Who acts:** magician, Caliph, most magicians · **What happens:** own, not arrive, meet

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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 (magician, Caliph, most magicians), 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:pg7277:7:152
# text = She owned that they could not have arrived at a better time, as most probably the magicians would meet that very night.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	owned	own	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
5	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
6	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
7	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	ccomp	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	12	amod	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	18	amod	_	_
16	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	magicians	magician	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
21	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	very	very	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **own** | past | magician |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **arrive** | could · perfect | Caliph |  |  |  | time |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **meet** | would | the most magicians |  |  |  | night |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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