The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 175
It was very pleasant to listen to, and it was also pretty to look at, as the jewels with which it was covered sparkled so.
Who acts: It, title · What happens: be, listen, cover, sparkle · To what, where: title
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 (It, title), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pleasant | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pleasant | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 pleasant | advmod |
| 4 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 listen | mark |
| 6 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleasant | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 listen | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 look | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 look | cc |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 look | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 look | cop |
| 12 | also | also | ADV | _ | 13 pretty | advmod |
| 13 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 15 look | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 look | mark |
| 15 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 pleasant | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 look | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 jewels | punct |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 jewels | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 jewels | det |
| 20 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 look | obl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 which | case |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 covered | obl |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 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 | 20 jewels | acl:relcl |
| 26 | sparkled | sparkle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 covered | xcomp |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 sparkled | advmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pleasant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | It | pleasant property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | listen | to-infinitive | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | title | as the jewels; look, pretty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover | past · passive | title | with the jewels | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sparkle | participle | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=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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