The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 79

She had a lantern in the shape of a fish, painted red and black and yellow, and Han Chung had got a big round one, all bright crimson, to carry in the procession; and, besides that, there were two large lanterns to be hung outside the cottage door as soon as it grew dark.

Who acts: Ho, Han, two large lanterns, door · What happens: have, paint, get, carry, be, hang · To what, where: lantern, shape, fish, big round one, procession, cottage door

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 (Ho, Han, two large lanterns, door), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lantern	det
4	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 shape	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shape	det
7	shape	shape	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 fish	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fish	det
10	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shape	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 painted	punct
12	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 fish	acl
13	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 painted	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 black	cc
15	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 red	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 yellow	cc
17	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 red	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 got	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 got	cc
20	Han	Han	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 got	nsubj
21	Chung	Chung	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 Han	flat
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 got	aux
23	got	get	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 had	parataxis
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 one	det
25	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 one	amod
26	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 one	amod
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 got	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 crimson	punct
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 crimson	det
30	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 crimson	amod
31	crimson	crimson	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 one	conj
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carry	punct
33	to	to	PART	_	34 carry	mark
34	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 got	advcl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 procession	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 procession	det
37	procession	procession	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 carry	obl
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 were	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 were	cc
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 and	punct
41	besides	besides	ADP	_	42 that	case
42	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 and	obl
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 and	punct
44	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	45 were	expl
45	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
46	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	48 lanterns	nummod
47	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	48 lanterns	amod
48	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 were	nsubj
49	to	to	PART	_	51 hung	mark
50	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	51 hung	aux:pass
51	hung	hang	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	48 lanterns	acl
52	outside	outside	ADP	_	55 door	case
53	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	55 door	det
54	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 door	compound
55	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 hung	obl
56	as	as	ADV	_	57 soon	advmod
57	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	60 grew	advmod
58	as	as	SCONJ	_	60 grew	mark
59	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 grew	nsubj
60	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	51 hung	advcl
61	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	60 grew	xcomp
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Ho	a lantern	the shape of a fish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=Patient
2	paint	participle		a fish not said here		red property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	get	past · perfect	Han	a big round one and all bright crimson			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	carry	to-infinitive	Han not said here		the procession		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in procession=Location
5	be	past	two large lanterns		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	hang	to-infinitive · passive	two large lanterns not said here		the cottage door		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: outside door=Location
7	grow	past	door			dark, soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 22, sentence 79