The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 107
Nevertheless, Rasalu, tender-hearted and strong, snatched it from the fire and set it at liberty.
Who acts: Rasalu · What happens: snatch, set · To what, where: cricket, fire, liberty
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rasalu), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 11 snatched | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | Rasalu | Rasalu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 snatched | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hearted | punct |
| 5 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearted | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 tender | punct |
| 7 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Rasalu | parataxis |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 strong | cc |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hearted | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Rasalu | punct |
| 11 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 snatched | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 fire | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fire | det |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 snatched | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 set | cc |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 snatched | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 liberty | case |
| 20 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 set | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 snatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snatch | past | Rasalu | cricket | the fire | nevertheless property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from fire=Source | ||
| 2 | set | past | Rasalu not said here | cricket | liberty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme at liberty=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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