The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 90

On one corner of the slab lay a heap of small brown objects which Wang Chih took at first to be date stones; but after a time the chess-players ate one each, and put one in Wang Chih’s mouth, and he found it was not a date stone at all.

Who acts: Wang, chess players, slab · What happens: lie, take, be, eat, put, find · To what, where: heap, one corner, small brown objects, date stones, one, mouth · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Wang, chess players, slab), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 corner	case
2	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 corner	nummod
3	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 slab	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 slab	det
6	slab	slab	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 corner	nmod
7	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 heap	det
9	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lay	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 objects	case
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 objects	amod
12	brown	brown	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 objects	amod
13	objects	object	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 heap	nmod
14	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 took	obj
15	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 took	nsubj
16	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 Wang	flat
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 objects	acl:relcl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 first	case
19	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	17 took	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	23 stones	mark
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 stones	cop
22	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 stones	compound
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 ate	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 ate	cc
26	after	after	ADP	_	28 time	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 ate	obl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 players	det
30	chess	chess	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 players	compound
31	-	-	PUNCT	_	30 chess	punct
32	players	player	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 ate	nsubj
33	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	parataxis
34	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	33 ate	obj
35	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	34 one	nmod:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 put	punct
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 put	cc
38	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 ate	conj
39	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 put	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	44 mouth	case
41	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	44 mouth	nmod:poss
42	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	41 Wang	flat
43	’s	's	PART	_	41 Wang	case
44	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 one	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 found	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 found	cc
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 found	nsubj
48	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 lay	conj
49	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 stone	nsubj
50	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 stone	cop
51	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	54 stone	advmod
52	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 stone	det
53	date	date	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 stone	compound
54	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 found	ccomp
55	at	at	ADP	_	56 all	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	54 stone	nmod
57	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lie	past		a heap of small brown objects	one corner of the slab		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location heap=Theme
2	take	past	Wang	small brown objects			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent which=Theme at first=Asset
3	is a	to-infinitive	Wang not said here	date stones			tree rules
4	eat	past	the chess players	one each		time	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
5	put	infinitive	the chess players not said here	one	Wang's mouth		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme in mouth=Destination
6	find	past	Wang				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
7	not is a	past	slab	a date stone	all		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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 90

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 90