The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 21
But flying was not an easy matter, for the two storks had had but little practice as yet.
Who acts: two storks · What happens: fly, not be, have · To what, where: flying easy matter
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two storks), 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 | _ | 7 matter | cc |
| 2 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 matter | amod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 matter | advmod |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 6 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 matter | amod |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 storks | det |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 storks | nummod |
| 12 | storks | stork | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 had | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 had | aux |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 matter | conj |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 practice | cc |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 practice | amod |
| 17 | practice | practice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 yet | case |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 had | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | gerund | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | past | a flying easy matter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | have | past · perfect | the two storks | little practice conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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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