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title: At length the Vizier suggested going further on to a pond which lay… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: At length the Vizier suggested going further on to a pond which lay beyond the town, and where he had often seen a variety of creatures, especially storks, whose grave, dignified appearance and constant chatter had often attracted his attention. Who acts: Vizier, pond, storks. A sentence of «The Gre
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 42

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At length the Vizier suggested going further on to a pond which lay beyond the town, and where he had often seen a variety of creatures, especially storks, whose grave, dignified appearance and constant chatter had often attracted his attention.

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**Who acts:** Vizier, pond, storks · **What happens:** suggest, go, lie, see, attract, attend · **To what, where:** length, pond, town, variety, dignified appearance

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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 (Vizier, pond, storks), 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:pg7277:7:42
# text = At length the Vizier suggested going further on to a pond which lay beyond the town, and where he had often seen a variety of creatures, especially storks, whose grave, dignified appearance and constant chatter had often attracted his attention.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	suggested	suggest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	going	go	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	xcomp	_	_
7	further	further	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	pond	pond	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
21	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
22	often	often	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	variety	variety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	creatures	creature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	especially	especially	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	dignified	dignified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
38	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	chatter	chatter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
40	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	aux	_	_
41	often	often	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
42	attracted	attract	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suggest** *speech: suggest* | past | the Vizier |  |  | length |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **go** | gerund | the Vizier *not said here* |  |  | a pond |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to pond=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **lie** | past | a pond |  |  | the town |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beyond town=Location |
| 4 | **see** | past · perfect | Vizier | a variety of creatures |  |  |  | often *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer variety=Stimulus |
| 5 | **attract** | past · perfect · passive | storks and storks and storks's grave's grave *not said here* | dignified appearance and constant chatter |  |  |  | often *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **attend** |  | Vizier |  |  |  |  |  | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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