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title: The Caliph stuck the snuff-box in his girdle, and, having desired hi… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Caliph stuck the snuff-box in his girdle, and, having desired his servants to remain at home, started off with the Grand Vizier only in attendance. Who acts: Caliph. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 40

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The Caliph stuck the snuff-box in his girdle, and, having desired his servants to remain at home, started off with the Grand Vizier only in attendance.

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**Who acts:** Caliph · **What happens:** stick, desire, remain, start off · **To what, where:** snuff box, girdle, servants, home, attendance

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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 (Caliph), 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:pg7277:7:40
# text = The Caliph stuck the snuff-box in his girdle, and, having desired his servants to remain at home, started off with the Grand Vizier only in attendance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stuck	stick	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	snuff	snuff	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	box	box	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
15	desired	desire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	servants	servant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	ccomp	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	home	home	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	started	start	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	off	off	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
29	only	only	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	attendance	attendance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **stick** | past | the Caliph | the snuff box |  | Vizier's girdle |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent box=Theme in girdle=Destination |
| 2 | **desire** | gerund · perfect | the Caliph *not said here* | Vizier's servants |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **remain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the Caliph *not said here* |  |  | home |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
| 4 | **start off** | past | the Caliph *not said here* |  |  | attendance |  | with the Grand Vizier | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with vizier=Subeventuality |

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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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