The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 116
So the crow flew up into the air, and looking round about saw the poor goat striving to release himself from the meshes of a hunter’s net.
Who acts: crow, looking, poor goat · What happens: fly up, look round, see, strive, release · To what, where: air, poor goat, goat, meshes · 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, looking, poor goat), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 flew | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | nsubj |
| 4 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 flew | compound:prt |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flew | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 saw | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 saw | cc |
| 11 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 saw | csubj |
| 12 | round | round | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 13 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 looking | advmod |
| 14 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 flew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goat | det |
| 16 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 goat | amod |
| 17 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 saw | obj |
| 18 | striving | strive | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 saw | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 release | mark |
| 20 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 striving | xcomp |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 release | obj |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 meshes | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 meshes | det |
| 24 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 release | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 net | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 hunter | det |
| 27 | hunter | hunter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 net | nmod:poss |
| 28 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 27 hunter | case |
| 29 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 meshes | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | the crow | into the air result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 2 | look round | gerund | about, round property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | looking | the poor goat | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | strive | gerund | the poor goat not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | release | to-infinitive | the poor goat not said here | goat | the meshes of a hunter's net | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source |
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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