The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 132
“That is not a bird singing, that is a cow mooing,” said the little kitchen maid.
Who acts: That, bird, cow, little kitchen maid · What happens: not be, sing, be, moo, say · To what, where: bird, cow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, bird, cow, little kitchen maid), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 bird | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 bird | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 bird | advmod |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bird | det |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 bird | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 cow | punct |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 cow | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 cow | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cow | det |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bird | appos |
| 13 | mooing | moo | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 cow | acl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 mooing | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cow | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 maid | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 maid | amod |
| 19 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 maid | compound |
| 20 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | present | That | a bird | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing speech: express in a quote | gerund | a bird not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | that | a cow | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | moo in a quote | gerund | a cow not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | the little kitchen maid | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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