The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 121
The crow and the weasel hastened to the spot, and such good work did the latter do with his teeth, that by the time the tortoise arrived, the goat was at liberty.
Who acts: such good work, latter, tortoise, goat · What happens: hasten, do, arrive, be · To what, where: weasel, spot, teeth, liberty, crow
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 (such good work, latter, tortoise, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 crow | det |
| 2 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 weasel | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 weasel | det |
| 5 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 crow | conj |
| 6 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 weasel | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 spot | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 spot | det |
| 9 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hastened | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 did | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 did | cc |
| 12 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 work | amod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 work | amod |
| 14 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 did | nsubj |
| 15 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 crow | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 latter | det |
| 17 | latter | latter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 do | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 did | parataxis |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 teeth | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 do | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 arrived | punct |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 arrived | obj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 time | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 time | det |
| 26 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 arrived | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 tortoise | det |
| 28 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 arrived | nsubj |
| 29 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 teeth | acl:relcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 liberty | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 goat | det |
| 32 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 liberty | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 liberty | cop |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 liberty | case |
| 35 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 arrived | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 crow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the weasel not said here | the spot | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to spot=Destination | ||||
| 2 | do | past | such good work | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | do | present | the latter | with work's teeth | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | arrive | past | the tortoise | work's teeth | time | tree rules | |||
| 5 | is | past | the goat | liberty | 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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