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title: He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave handed to him, and after each sip he stroked his long beard with an air of enjoyment. Who acts: Bagdad, little coffee. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its de
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 3

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He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave handed to him, and after each sip he stroked his long beard with an air of enjoyment.

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**Who acts:** Bagdad, little coffee · **What happens:** smoke, sip, slave, hand, stroke · **To what, where:** long pipe, little coffee, slave, Bagdad, long beard

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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 (Bagdad, little coffee), 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:pg7277:7:3
# text = He was smoking a long pipe, and from time to time he sipped a little coffee which a slave handed to him, and after each sip he stroked his long beard with an air of enjoyment.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	smoking	smoke	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	pipe	pipe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	sipped	sip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	coffee	coffee	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	slave	slave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
21	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	acl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	after	after	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	sip	sip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	stroked	stroke	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
32	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	enjoyment	enjoyment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smoke** | past · progressive | Bagdad | a long pipe |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent pipe=Source |
| 2 | **sip** | past | Bagdad | a little coffee |  |  | time |  | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coffee=Patient |
| 3 | **slave** |  | a little coffee |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hand** | participle |  | a slave *not said here* | Bagdad |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to he=Destination |
| 5 | **stroke** | past | Bagdad | Bagdad's long beard |  |  | after each sip | with a air of enjoyment | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent beard=Experiencer with air=Instrument |

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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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