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title: ‘Well said,’ replied the Caliph; ‘but first let us remember carefull… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘Well said,’ replied the Caliph; ‘but first let us remember carefully how we are to become men once more. Who acts: ’, us, we. 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.
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 48

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‘Well said,’ replied the Caliph; ‘but first let us remember carefully how we are to become men once more.

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**Who acts:** ’, us, we · **What happens:** say, reply, let, remember, be · **To what, where:** Caliph, us, men · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (’, us, we), 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:pg7277:7:48
# text = ‘Well said,’ replied the Caliph; ‘but first let us remember carefully how we are to become men once more.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	INTJ	UH	_	3	discourse	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	'	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	replied	reply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	ccomp	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
10	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	let	let	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
14	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
18	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
22	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	xcomp	_	_
23	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | ’ | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic |
| 3 | **let** | infinitive |  | us |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **remember** | infinitive | us *not said here* |  |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is** | present | we | men |  |  |  | become *property* | tree rules |

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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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