The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 24
One corner of the sky thereupon began to drop, and at length it touched the earth.
Who acts: One corner, corner · What happens: begin, drop, touch · To what, where: earth, length
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 (One corner, corner), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 corner | nummod |
| 2 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 began | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 sky | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sky | det |
| 5 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 corner | nmod |
| 6 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 7 began | advmod |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drop | mark |
| 9 | drop | drop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 touched | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 touched | cc |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 length | case |
| 13 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | obl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | parataxis |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 touched | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | One corner of the sky | thereupon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | drop | to-infinitive | One corner of the sky not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | touch | past | corner | the earth | length | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme earth=Co-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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