The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 1, sentence 181
The bird they had now could be opened, and the inside shown and explained, but if this were done to the other it would die.
Who acts: BIRDS, inside · What happens: have, open, show, explain, do, die · To what, where: bird, this
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 (BIRDS, inside), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 bird | acl:relcl |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 had | advmod |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 opened | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opened | aux:pass |
| 8 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shown | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 shown | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 inside | det |
| 12 | inside | inside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shown | nsubj |
| 13 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 opened | conj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 explained | cc |
| 15 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 shown | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 die | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 die | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 done | mark |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 done | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Sub Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 done | aux:pass |
| 21 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 die | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 other | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 other | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 done | obl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 die | nsubj |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 die | aux |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 opened | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | BIRDS = bird | the bird not said here | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | |||
| 2 | open | could · passive | the bird | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | participle | the inside | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | participle | the inside not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do a condition, not said to happen | past · passive | this | to the other | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | die | would | inside | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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