The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 105

The crow, who had flown to the upper branches of a high tree, saw that the man who had been hunting the goat had given up the chase, so he called to the tortoise, whose haven was the pool, that it was quite safe now for him to come out.

Who acts: crow, man, goat, haven · What happens: fly, see, hunt, give up, call, be · To what, where: goat, chase, tortoise, pool · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crow, man, goat, haven), 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 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 flown	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 flown	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flown	aux
6	flown	fly	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 crow	acl:relcl
7	to	to	ADP	_	10 branches	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 branches	det
9	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 branches	amod
10	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 flown	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tree	det
13	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 tree	amod
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 branches	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct
16	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 given	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	nsubj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 hunting	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 hunting	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 hunting	aux
23	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 man	acl:relcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 goat	det
25	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hunting	obj
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 given	aux
27	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 saw	ccomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 given	compound:prt
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 chase	det
30	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 given	obj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 called	punct
32	so	so	ADV	_	34 called	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 called	nsubj
34	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 saw	conj
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 tortoise	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 tortoise	det
37	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 called	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 pool	punct
39	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	40 haven	nmod:poss
40	haven	haven	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 pool	nsubj
41	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	43 pool	cop
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 pool	det
43	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tortoise	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 safe	punct
45	that	that	SCONJ	_	49 safe	mark
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 safe	nsubj
47	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 safe	cop
48	quite	quite	ADV	_	49 safe	advmod
49	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 called	xcomp
50	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	49 safe	advmod
51	for	for	SCONJ	_	54 come	mark
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 come	nsubj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 come	mark
54	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 safe	advcl
55	out	out	ADV	_	54 come	advmod
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past · perfect	the crow				to the upper branches of a high tree result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to branch=Result
2	see	past	the crow					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	hunt	past · perfect · progressive	the man	the goat				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
4	give up	past · perfect	the man	the chase				vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Source
5	call	past	goat		the tortoise and the pool			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to tortoise=Recipient
6	is a	past	the pool's haven	the pool				tree rules
7	is	past	haven			now	safe property	tree rules
8	come out	to-infinitive	goat				out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 105