The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 91
She took some incense and threw it into the fire, when there arose a thick cloud of smoke.
Who acts: fairy · What happens: take, throw, arise, cloud · To what, where: incense, fire, thick cloud, smoke
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairy), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 incense | det |
| 4 | incense | incense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 threw | cc |
| 6 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 threw | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 fire | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fire | det |
| 10 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 threw | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arose | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 arose | advmod |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 arose | expl |
| 14 | arose | arise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 cloud | det |
| 16 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cloud | amod |
| 17 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arose | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 smoke | case |
| 19 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 cloud | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | fairy | some incense | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incense=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | fairy not said here | incense | into the fire result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into fire=Result | |||
| 3 | arise | past | fairy not said here | a thick cloud of smoke | there | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloud=Theme | |||
| 4 | cloud | smoke | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
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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