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title: The Grand Vizier crossed his arms on his breast and bent low before… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: The Grand Vizier crossed his arms on his breast and bent low before his master as he answered: Who acts: Grand Vizier, Vizier. 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 8

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The Grand Vizier crossed his arms on his breast and bent low before his master as he answered:

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**Who acts:** Grand Vizier, Vizier · **What happens:** cross, bend, answer · **To what, where:** arms, breast, master

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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 (Grand Vizier, Vizier), 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:pg7277:7:8
# text = The Grand Vizier crossed his arms on his breast and bent low before his master as he answered:
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Grand	Grand	ADJ	NNP	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Vizier	Vizier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	bent	bend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
12	low	low	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	master	master	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | the Grand Vizier | Vizier's arms |  | Vizier's breast |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Patient |
| 2 | **bend** | participle | the Grand Vizier *not said here* |  |  | Vizier's master |  | low *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before master=Location |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Vizier |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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