The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 21, sentence 15
Then he bethought him of the cricket, and drawing the feeler from his pocket, thrust it into the fire.
Who acts: maiden · What happens: bethink, draw · To what, where: maid, feeler, fire
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 (maiden), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bethought | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | nsubj |
| 3 | bethought | bethink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bethought | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 cricket | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cricket | det |
| 7 | cricket | cricket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bethought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawing | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 drawing | cc |
| 10 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 bethought | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 feeler | det |
| 12 | feeler | feeler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | obj |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 pocket | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nmod:poss |
| 15 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | conj | ||
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 thrust | punct |
| 17 | thrust | thrust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pocket | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pocket | nsubj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 fire | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fire | det |
| 21 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bethought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bethink | past | maiden | maid | then | of the cricket | tree rules | ||
| 2 | draw | gerund | maiden not said here | the feeler | into the fire result; maiden's pocket feeler and thrust conj | vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent feeler=Patient into fire=Result |
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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