The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 20
Then came the weasel, whose strong teeth soon set the tortoise at liberty, and together they hid themselves in a bush.
Who acts: weasel, teeth · What happens: come, set, hide · To what, where: tortoise, liberty, teeth, bush
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weasel, teeth), 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 | 2 came | advmod |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 weasel | det |
| 4 | weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 teeth | punct |
| 6 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 teeth | amod |
| 8 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 weasel | conj |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 set | advmod |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tortoise | det |
| 12 | tortoise | tortoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 liberty | case |
| 14 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 set | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 hid | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 hid | cc |
| 17 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 hid | advmod |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 hid | nsubj |
| 19 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 20 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 hid | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bush | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 bush | det |
| 23 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hid | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | set | past | the weasel and the weasel and the weasel's strong teeth's strong teeth | the tortoise | liberty | soon property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme at liberty=Destination | ||
| 3 | hide | past | teeth = tooth | teeth = tooth | a bush | together property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in bush=Location |
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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