The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 17

So they gave him a little bottle and before he had time to say “Thank you!” a white crane came sailing past and lighted on the ground close to the cave.

Who acts: wings, Chih, white crane · What happens: give, have, say, thank, come, sail · To what, where: little bottle, Chih, you, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wings, Chih, white crane), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 gave	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 gave	iobj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bottle	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bottle	amod
7	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 had	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	conj
12	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 say	mark
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 time	acl
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 came	punct
16	Thank	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 came	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 Thank	obj
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 Thank	punct
19	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 Thank	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 crane	det
21	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 crane	amod
22	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 came	nsubj
23	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	ccomp
24	sailing	sail	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 came	xcomp
25	past	past	ADV	_	24 sailing	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 lighted	cc
27	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 came	conj
28	on	on	ADP	_	30 ground	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 ground	det
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 lighted	obl
31	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 ground	amod
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 cave	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 cave	det
34	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 close	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	wings = wing	a little bottle	Chih				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient bottle=Theme
2	have	past	Chih				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	say speech: express	to-infinitive	Chih not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	thank speech: thank in a quote	present	a white crane not said here		you				vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	come	past	a white crane						tree rules
6	sail	gerund	a white crane not said here					past property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
7	light	participle	a white crane not said here			the ground			vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 23, sentence 17