The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 20, sentence 31
These she had boiled in a huge cauldron, and the result was a cement which would mend anything.
Who acts: result, cement · What happens: boil, be, mend · To what, where: These, cement, anything
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 (result, cement), 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 boiled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 boiled | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 boiled | aux |
| 4 | boiled | boil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 cauldron | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 cauldron | det |
| 7 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cauldron | amod |
| 8 | cauldron | cauldron | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boiled | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cement | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cement | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 result | det |
| 12 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 cement | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cement | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 cement | det |
| 15 | cement | cement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 boiled | obl |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 mend | nsubj |
| 17 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 mend | aux |
| 18 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 cement | acl:relcl |
| 19 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 mend | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 boiled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil | past · perfect · passive | These | in a huge cauldron; damage nsubj | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in cauldron=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | the result | a cement | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mend | would | a cement | anything | tree rules |
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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