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title: He would strut gravely, and with well-stiffened legs, up and down th… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He would strut gravely, and with well-stiffened legs, up and down the room, chattering, and showing how he had vainly bowed to the east and cried ‘Mu... Who acts: arrival. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 188

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He would strut gravely, and with well-stiffened legs, up and down the room, chattering, and showing how he had vainly bowed to the east and cried ‘Mu...

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**Who acts:** arrival · **What happens:** strut, stiffen, chatter, show, bow, cry · **To what, where:** room, Mu · **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 (arrival), 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:pg7277:7:188
# text = He would strut gravely, and with well-stiffened legs, up and down the room, chattering, and showing how he had vainly bowed to the east and cried ‘Mu...
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	strut	strut	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	gravely	gravely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	stiffened	stiffen	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	amod	_	_
11	legs	leg	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	up	up	ADP	RB	_	17	case	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	down	down	ADP	IN	_	13	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	room	room	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	chattering	chatter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	19	conj	_	_
23	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
26	vainly	vainly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	bowed	bow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	ccomp	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	conj	_	_
33	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	34	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	Mu	mu	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	...	...	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strut** | would | arrival |  |  | the room |  | gravely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme up room=Trajectory |
| 2 | **stiffen** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | well *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **chatter** | gerund | arrival *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **show** | gerund | arrival *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **bow** | past · perfect | arrival |  |  |  |  | to the east; vainly *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to east=Theme |
| 6 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | arrival *not said here* | Mu |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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