--- title: Suddenly he exclaimed: ‘May I die, oh, my Lord, if this isn’t Latin!’ — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics description: Suddenly he exclaimed: ‘May I die, oh, my Lord, if this isn’t Latin!’ Who acts: Selim, I, this. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/27/) [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/) / 27 # The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 27 Suddenly he exclaimed: ‘May I die, oh, my Lord, if this isn’t Latin!’ **Who acts:** Selim, I, this · **What happens:** exclaim, die, not be · **To what, where:** Lord · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (Selim, I, this), 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:pg7277:7:27 # text = Suddenly he exclaimed: ‘May I die, oh, my Lord, if this isn’t Latin!’ 1 Suddenly suddenly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 2 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 exclaimed exclaim VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 4 : : PUNCT : _ 8 punct _ _ 5 ‘ ' PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 May may AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 8 aux _ _ 7 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 die die VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 10 oh oh INTJ UH _ 13 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 13 Lord Lord PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 15 if if SCONJ IN _ 19 mark _ _ 16 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 19 nsubj _ _ 17 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 19 cop _ SpaceAfter=No 18 n’t not PART RB Polarity=Neg 19 advmod _ _ 19 Latin Latin ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ! ! PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 21 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Selim | | | | | suddenly *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 2 | **die** | may | I | my Lord | | | | | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | | 3 | **not** **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | this | | | | | latin *property* | tree rules | 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 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/28/) - ↑ back to [The Story of Caliph Stork](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/7/)