The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 28
He tenderly stroked its pretty feathers, and the bird made no effort to fly away.
Who acts: luncheon, bird · What happens: stroke, make, fly away · To what, where: pretty feathers, effort
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (luncheon, bird), 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 | 3 stroked | nsubj |
| 2 | tenderly | tenderly | ADV | _ | 3 stroked | advmod |
| 3 | stroked | stroke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 feathers | amod |
| 6 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stroked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 made | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 made | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | nsubj |
| 11 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stroked | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 effort | det |
| 13 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 made | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 fly | mark |
| 15 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 effort | acl |
| 16 | away | away | ADV | _ | 15 fly | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stroked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stroke | past | luncheon | lack's pretty feathers | tenderly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | make | past | the bird | no effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effort=Product | ||||
| 3 | fly away | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | no effort not said here | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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