The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 167
But he was mistaken, for it was a mechanical toy, an artificial Nightingale which looked something like a real bird but was covered with jewels.
Who acts: EMPEROR, parcel, artificial Nightingale · What happens: be, look, cover · To what, where: something
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 (EMPEROR, parcel, artificial Nightingale), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 mistaken | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 mistaken | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mistaken | cop |
| 4 | mistaken | mistaken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 toy | punct |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 toy | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 toy | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 toy | cop |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 toy | det |
| 10 | mechanical | mechanical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 toy | amod |
| 11 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mistaken | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Nightingale | punct |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Nightingale | det |
| 14 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Nightingale | amod |
| 15 | Nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 toy | conj |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 looked | nsubj |
| 17 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Nightingale | acl:relcl |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 looked | obj |
| 19 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 bird | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 bird | det |
| 21 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bird | amod |
| 22 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 something | nmod |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 covered | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 covered | aux:pass |
| 25 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 looked | conj |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 jewels | case |
| 27 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 covered | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mistaken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | EMPEROR | mistaken property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | parcel | for a mechanical toy and a artificial Nightingale; a artificial Nightingale conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | look | past | a artificial Nightingale | something | like a real bird | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme something=Attribute | |||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | a artificial Nightingale not said here | with jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with jewel=Theme |
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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