The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 108
Then the little creature, full of gratitude, pulled out one of its feelers, and giving it to its preserver, said, “Keep this, and should you ever be in trouble, put it into the fire, and instantly I will come to your aid.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: pull out, give, say, keep, be, put · To what, where: little creature, creature, preserver, this, trouble, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, I), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 pulled | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 creature | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 4 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pulled | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 full | punct |
| 6 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 creature | amod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 gratitude | case |
| 8 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
| 10 | pulled | pull | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pulled | compound:prt |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 pulled | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 feelers | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 feelers | nmod:poss |
| 15 | feelers | feeler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 said | cc |
| 18 | giving | give | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 said | ccomp |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 giving | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 preserver | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 preserver | nmod:poss |
| 22 | preserver | preserver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 giving | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 giving | punct |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pulled | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Keep | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Keep | punct |
| 27 | Keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 said | ccomp |
| 28 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 Keep | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 trouble | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 trouble | cc |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 trouble | aux |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 trouble | nsubj |
| 33 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 trouble | advmod |
| 34 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 trouble | cop |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 trouble | case |
| 36 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Keep | conj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 put | punct |
| 38 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Keep | conj |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 put | obj |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 fire | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 fire | det |
| 42 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 put | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 come | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 come | cc |
| 45 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 48 come | advmod |
| 46 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 come | nsubj |
| 47 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 48 come | aux |
| 48 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 Keep | conj |
| 49 | to | to | ADP | _ | 51 aid | case |
| 50 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 aid | nmod:poss |
| 51 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 come | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 pulled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull out | participle · passive | the little creature | then | one of creature's feelers obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | creature | creature's preserver | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to preserver=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | keep in a quote | infinitive | this | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | should | you | trouble | ever | tree rules | |||
| 6 | put in a quote | infinitive | creature | the fire | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | future | I | your aid | instantly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to aid=Initial_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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