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title: Chasid listened with favour to his servant’s suggestion, and perceiv… — The Green Fairy Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Chasid listened with favour to his servant’s suggestion, and perceiving in the valley beneath them a ruin which seemed to promise shelter they flew towards it. Who acts: Chasid, ruin, servant. A sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Caliph Stork, with its dependency tree an
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# The Green Fairy Book, The Story of Caliph Stork, sentence 97

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Chasid listened with favour to his servant’s suggestion, and perceiving in the valley beneath them a ruin which seemed to promise shelter they flew towards it.

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**Who acts:** Chasid, ruin, servant · **What happens:** listen, perceive, seem, promise, fly, suggest · **To what, where:** ruin, valley, shelter

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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 (Chasid, ruin, servant), 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:pg7277:7:97
# text = Chasid listened with favour to his servant’s suggestion, and perceiving in the valley beneath them a ruin which seemed to promise shelter they flew towards it.
1	Chasid	Chasid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	servant	servant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	’s	's	PART	POS	_	7	case	_	_
9	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	perceiving	perceive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	promise	promise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	shelter	shelter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Chasid |  |  |  |  | with favour; to Vizier's servant's suggestion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to suggestion=Theme |
| 2 | **perceive** | gerund | Chasid *not said here* | a ruin |  | the valley |  | beneath Chasid | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer ruin=Stimulus |
| 3 | **seem** | past | a ruin |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **promise** *speech: promise* | to-infinitive | a ruin *not said here* | shelter |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme |
| 5 | **fly** | past | Chasid | shelter *not said here* |  | shelter |  |  | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme towards it=Destination |
| 6 | **suggest** |  | Vizier's servant |  |  |  |  |  | nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: 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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