--- title: Fortunately, the Caliph found not only the box with the magic powder… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Fortunately, the Caliph found not only the box with the magic powder, but also his purse in his girdle; he was, therefore, able to buy in the nearest village all they required for their journey, and so at last they reached the gates of Bagdad. Who acts: Caliph, Bagdad. A sentence of «The Green Fairy --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/176/) [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 Green Fairy Book](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/) / [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/) / 176 # The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 176 Fortunately, the Caliph found not only the box with the magic powder, but also his purse in his girdle; he was, therefore, able to buy in the nearest village all they required for their journey, and so at last they reached the gates of Bagdad. **Who acts:** Caliph, Bagdad · **What happens:** find, be, buy, require, reach, journey · **To what, where:** box, nearest village, gates 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, Bagdad), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **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:pg7277:7:176 # text = Fortunately, the Caliph found not only the box with the magic powder, but also his purse in his girdle; he was, therefore, able to buy in the nearest village all they required for their journey, and so at last they reached the gates of Bagdad. 1 Fortunately fortunately ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 Caliph Caliph PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 found find VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 9 advmod _ _ 7 only only ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 8 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 box box NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 10 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 13 det _ _ 12 magic magic ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 powder powder NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 15 but but CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 16 also also ADV RB _ 18 advmod _ _ 17 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 18 nmod:poss _ _ 18 purse purse NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 20 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 21 nmod:poss _ _ 21 girdle girdle NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 22 ; ; PUNCT : _ 28 punct _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 24 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 therefore therefore ADV RB _ 28 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 28 able able ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 parataxis _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 buy buy VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 32 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 33 nearest near ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 34 amod _ _ 34 village village NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 all all DET DT PronType=Tot 34 conj _ _ 36 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 37 nsubj _ _ 37 required require VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 acl:relcl _ _ 38 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 39 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 40 journey journey NOUN NN Number=Sing 37 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 42 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 43 so so ADV RB _ 45 advmod _ _ 44 at at ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 45 last last ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 conj _ _ 46 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj _ _ 47 reached reach VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 acl:relcl _ _ 48 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 49 det _ _ 49 gates gate NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 obj _ _ 50 of of ADP IN _ 51 case _ _ 51 Bagdad Bagdad PROPN NNP Number=Sing 49 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 52 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **find** | past | the Caliph | the box | | | | with the magic powder; Bagdad's purse in Bagdad's girdle *obl*; fortunately *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Topic | | 2 | **is** | past | Bagdad | | | | | able, therefore *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **buy** | to-infinitive | Bagdad *not said here* | | | the nearest village | | | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **require** | past | Caliph | | | | | for Caliph's journey | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **be** | | Bagdad *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **reach** | past | Caliph | the gates of Bagdad | | | | | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent gate=Theme | | 7 | **journey** | | Caliph | | | | | | nom journey «act 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 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. - ← previous: [sentence 175](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/175/) - next →: [sentence 177](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/177/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/)