The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 57
It looks but ordinary, and makes no show, but its virtues are wonderful.
Who acts: rarity, virtues · What happens: look, make, be · To what, where: show
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rarity, virtues), 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 | 2 looks | nsubj |
| 2 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ordinary | cc |
| 4 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 looks | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 makes | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 makes | cc |
| 7 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 looks | conj |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 show | det |
| 9 | show | show | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 makes | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wonderful | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 wonderful | cc |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 virtues | nmod:poss |
| 13 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 wonderful | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wonderful | cop |
| 15 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 makes | parataxis |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | rarity | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | make | present | rarity not said here | no show | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset show=Product | ||||
| 3 | is | present | rarity's virtues | wonderful property | tree rules |
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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