The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 19, sentence 45
The stone was there beneath the tree, and upon removing this she saw the phial containing the bright red liquid.
Who acts: stone, dream, phial · What happens: be, remove, see, contain · To what, where: this, phial, bright red liquid
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 (stone, dream, phial), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stone | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | cop |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 5 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 10 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 11 removing | mark |
| 11 | removing | remove | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saw | advcl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 removing | obj |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 saw | nsubj |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 there | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 phial | det |
| 16 | phial | phial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 17 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 phial | acl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 liquid | det |
| 19 | bright | bright | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 liquid | amod |
| 20 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 liquid | amod |
| 21 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 containing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the stone | beneath the tree; there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remove | gerund | dream not said here | this | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | dream | the phial | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer phial=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | contain | gerund | the phial not said here | the bright red liquid | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot liquid=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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