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title: The two newly made storks lost no time in drawing near, and to their… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The two newly made storks lost no time in drawing near, and to their amazement overheard the following conversation: Who acts: two made storks, time, storks. 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 61

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The two newly made storks lost no time in drawing near, and to their amazement overheard the following conversation:

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**Who acts:** two made storks, time, storks · **What happens:** make, lose, draw, overhear, follow, amaze · **To what, where:** following conversation

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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 (two made storks, time, 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:pg7277:7:61
# text = The two newly made storks lost no time in drawing near, and to their amazement overheard the following conversation:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
3	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	amod	_	_
5	storks	stork	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	lost	lose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	8	det	_	_
8	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	8	acl	_	_
11	near	near	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	amazement	amazement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
17	overheard	overhear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	20	amod	_	_
20	conversation	conversation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 2 | **lose** | past | the two made storks |  |  |  | time |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **draw** | gerund | no time *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **overhear** | past | the two made storks *not said here* | the following conversation |  |  |  | to storks's amazement | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus |
| 5 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **amaze** |  | storks *= stork* |  |  |  |  |  | nom amazement «feeling transitive»: 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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