The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 18, sentence 101
“Let me take the magic ring,” said the dog as they were about to plunge into the water.
Who acts: dog, bridge · What happens: let, take, say, be, plunge · To what, where: dog, magic ring, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, bridge), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 6 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ring | amod |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dog | det |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 about | mark |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 about | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 about | cop |
| 16 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 plunge | mark |
| 18 | plunge | plunge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 about | xcomp |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 water | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 water | det |
| 21 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 plunge | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the dog = dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take in a quote | infinitive | the dog = dog not said here | the magic ring | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the dog | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is | past | bridge | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | plunge | to-infinitive | bridge not said here | the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into water=Initial_Location |
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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