The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 11

He looked into all the forty, one after another, and found them full of the same coin, and taking out a handful, he carried it to the queen.

Who acts: room · What happens: look, find, take out, carry · To what, where: urns, handful, queen

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (room), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	6 forty	case
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 forty	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forty	det
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 looked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 forty	conj
9	after	after	ADP	_	10 another	case
10	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	8 one	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 found	cc
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 found	obj
15	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 found	xcomp
16	of	of	ADP	_	19 coin	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 coin	det
18	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 coin	amod
19	coin	coin	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 full	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taking	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 taking	cc
22	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 found	advcl
23	out	out	ADP	_	22 taking	compound:prt
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 handful	det
25	handful	handful	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taking	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 carried	punct
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	nsubj
28	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 carried	obj
30	to	to	ADP	_	32 queen	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 queen	det
32	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 carried	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	room			into all forty	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into forty=Theme
2	find	past	room not said here	urns = urn		full property	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
3	take out	gerund	room not said here	a handful			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent handful=Theme
4	carry	past	room	handful	the queen		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to queen=Destination

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 11

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 11