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title: ‘You’ve got a fine long bill, Sir Vizier,’ cried the Caliph, after s… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: ‘You’ve got a fine long bill, Sir Vizier,’ cried the Caliph, after standing for some time lost in astonishment. Who acts: You. 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 55

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‘You’ve got a fine long bill, Sir Vizier,’ cried the Caliph, after standing for some time lost in astonishment.

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**Who acts:** You · **What happens:** get, cry, stand, lose · **To what, where:** fine long bill, Caliph, time, astonishment

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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 (You), 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:pg7277:7:55
# text = ‘You’ve got a fine long bill, Sir Vizier,’ cried the Caliph, after standing for some time lost in astonishment.
1	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	You	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	’ve	've	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	got	get	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	fine	fine	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	bill	bill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Sir	Sir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	’	'	PUNCT	''	_	14	punct	_	_
14	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
19	standing	stand	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
22	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **get** | past | You | a fine long bill |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bill=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | You *not said here* | the Caliph |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent caliph=Topic |
| 3 | **stand** | gerund | You *not said here* |  |  |  | time |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lose** | participle |  | some time *not said here* |  | astonishment |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in astonishment=Eventuality |

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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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