The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 18
She observed everything with the eye of curiosity, and in a corner spied a little urn of the same sort of stone as the others.
Who acts: Zeyn · What happens: observe, spy, sort · To what, where: everything, little urn, corner, stone
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 (Zeyn), 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 observed | nsubj |
| 2 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 observed | obj |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 eye | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 eye | det |
| 6 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 observed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 curiosity | case |
| 8 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eye | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spied | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spied | cc |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 corner | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 corner | det |
| 13 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spied | obl |
| 14 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 observed | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 urn | det |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 urn | amod |
| 17 | urn | urn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spied | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 sort | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 sort | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sort | amod |
| 21 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 urn | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 stone | case |
| 23 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sort | nmod |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 others | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 others | det |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 spied | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | Zeyn | everything | with the eye of curiosity | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent everything=Topic | |||
| 2 | spy | past | Zeyn not said here | a little urn of the same sort of stone | a corner | as the others | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer urn=Stimulus | ||
| 3 | sort | stone | nom sort «cognition 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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