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title: As soon as they arrived they remarked a stork strutting up and down… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: As soon as they arrived they remarked a stork strutting up and down with a stately air, hunting for frogs, and now and then muttering something to itself. Who acts: Caliph, stork. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 44

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As soon as they arrived they remarked a stork strutting up and down with a stately air, hunting for frogs, and now and then muttering something to itself.

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**Who acts:** Caliph, stork · **What happens:** arrive, remark, strut, hunt, mutter · **To what, where:** stork, something, air

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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, stork), 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:pg7277:7:44
# text = As soon as they arrived they remarked a stork strutting up and down with a stately air, hunting for frogs, and now and then muttering something to itself.
1	As	as	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
3	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stork	stork	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	strutting	strut	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	down	down	ADV	RB	_	11	conj	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	hunting	hunt	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	27	advmod	_	_
27	muttering	mutter	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
28	something	something	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	27	obj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Caliph |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | Caliph | a stork |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stork=Topic |
| 3 | **strut** | gerund | a stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with a stately air | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **hunt** | gerund | a stork *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for frogs | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for frog=Theme |
| 5 | **mutter** *speech: assert* | gerund | Caliph *not said here* | something | air |  | now; then |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent something=Topic to itself=Recipient |

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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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