The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 168
When it was wound up it could sing the piece the real bird sang, and moved its tail up and down.
Who acts: parcel, real bird · What happens: woun up, sing, move · To what, where: parcel, piece, tail
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 (parcel, real bird), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 wound | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 wound | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wound | aux:pass |
| 4 | wound | woun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 sing | advcl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 wound | compound:prt |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sing | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 sing | aux |
| 8 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 piece | det |
| 10 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sing | obj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sang | nsubj |
| 14 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 piece | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 moved | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 moved | cc |
| 17 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sing | conj |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 moved | obj |
| 20 | up | up | ADV | _ | 17 moved | advmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 down | cc |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 20 up | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | woun up | past · passive | parcel | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | sing speech: express | could | parcel | the piece | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | the real bird | the piece not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location piece=Theme | ||||
| 4 | move | past | parcel not said here | parcel's tail | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent tail=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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