The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 27
The first thing was, of course, to bring the dragon out, and the next to make him breathe water instead of fire.
Who acts: first thing, dragon · What happens: be, make, breathe · To what, where: dragon, water
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 (first thing, dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 thing | amod |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 bring | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 of | fixed |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 bring | mark |
| 10 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 dragon | det |
| 12 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bring | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 bring | compound:prt |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 next | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 next | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 next | det |
| 17 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bring | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 next | csubj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | xcomp |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breathe | obj |
| 23 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 25 fire | case |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 instead | fixed |
| 25 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 breathe | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the first thing | the dragon obj; bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the first thing not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | breathe | infinitive | dragon not said here | water | instead fire | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=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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