The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 42
There she would find a small phial which was filled with bright red liquid.
Who acts: bird · What happens: find, fill · To what, where: small phial
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 (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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 find | expl |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 find | aux |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 phial | det |
| 6 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 phial | amod |
| 7 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 find | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 filled | aux:pass |
| 10 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 phial | acl:relcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 liquid | case |
| 12 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 liquid | amod |
| 13 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 liquid | amod |
| 14 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 filled | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | would | bird | a small phial | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent phial=Topic | |||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | a small phial | with bright red liquid | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with liquid=Instrument |
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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