The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 40

To this he consented, and at once, as though understanding all that was said, the bird flew to Zaïda and nestled on her shoulder.

Who acts: Rajah, bird · What happens: consent, understand, say, fly, nestle · To what, where: that, Zaïda, shoulder · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Rajah, 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	To	to	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 consented	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 consented	nsubj
4	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 once	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 once	cc
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 once	case
8	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 consented	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 understanding	punct
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 understanding	mark
11	though	though	SCONJ	_	12 understanding	mark
12	understanding	understand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 consented	advcl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 said	det:predet
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 said	nsubj:pass
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	aux:pass
16	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 understanding	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 flew	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bird	det
19	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 flew	nsubj
20	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 consented	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 Zaïda	case
22	Zaïda	Zaïda	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 flew	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 nestled	cc
24	nestled	nestle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 flew	conj
25	on	on	ADP	_	27 shoulder	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 shoulder	nmod:poss
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 nestled	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Rajah				to this; once property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to this=Theme
2	understand	gerund	Rajah not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	say speech: assert	past · passive		that				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4	fly	past	the bird		Zaïda			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to zaïda=Result
5	nestle	participle	the bird not said here			bird's shoulder		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 40

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 40