The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 33
Both of them were sitting by an open window, and suddenly the bird flew from its master’s shoulder to the window sill.
Who acts: Both, bird · What happens: sit, fly · To what, where: shoulder
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 (Both, 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 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 sitting | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | aux |
| 5 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 window | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 window | det |
| 8 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 window | amod |
| 9 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sitting | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flew | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 flew | cc |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 flew | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 bird | det |
| 14 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | nsubj |
| 15 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sitting | conj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 shoulder | case |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 master | case |
| 20 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sill | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sill | det |
| 23 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sill | compound |
| 24 | sill | sill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flew | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sitting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past · progressive | Both of confidence | by a open window | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by window=Location | ||||
| 2 | fly | past | the bird | window's master's shoulder | to the window sill; suddenly property | vn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent from shoulder=Initial_Location to sill=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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