The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 34

Then he breathed twice, and the water came out in three mighty rivers, and Wang Chih, who had taken care to fill his bottle when the first stream began to flow, sailed away on the white crane’s back as fast as he could go, to escape being drowned.

Who acts: Wang, water, Wang Chih, first stream · What happens: breathe, come out, take, fill, begin, flow · To what, where: three mighty rivers, care, bottle

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 (Wang, water, Wang Chih, first stream), 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	3 breathed	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 breathed	nsubj
3	breathed	breathe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 breathed	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 came	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	nsubj
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breathed	conj
10	out	out	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 rivers	case
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 rivers	nummod
13	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 rivers	amod
14	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 came	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 sailed	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 sailed	cc
17	Wang	Wang	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 Chih	compound
18	Chih	Chih	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 sailed	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 taken	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 taken	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 taken	aux
22	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 Chih	acl
23	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 taken	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 fill	mark
25	fill	fill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 taken	advcl
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bottle	nmod:poss
27	bottle	bottle	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fill	obj
28	when	when	SCONJ	_	32 began	mark
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 stream	det
30	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	31 stream	amod
31	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 began	nsubj
32	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fill	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 flow	mark
34	flow	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 began	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 Chih	punct
36	sailed	sail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 breathed	parataxis
37	away	away	ADV	_	36 sailed	advmod
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 crane	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 crane	det
40	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 crane	amod
41	crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 ’s	obl
42	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 sailed	conj
43	back	back	ADV	_	45 fast	advmod
44	as	as	ADV	_	45 fast	advmod
45	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	42 ’s	advmod
46	as	as	SCONJ	_	49 go	mark
47	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 go	nsubj
48	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 go	aux
49	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 fast	advcl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 escape	punct
51	to	to	PART	_	52 escape	mark
52	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 go	conj
53	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	54 drowned	aux:pass
54	drowned	drown	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 escape	xcomp
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 breathed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	past	Wang			then	twice property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	come out	past	the water		three mighty rivers		out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient
3	take	past · perfect	Wang Chih	care				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme
4	fill	to-infinitive	Wang Chih not said here	Wang's bottle				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent bottle=Patient
5	begin	past	the first stream					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	flow	to-infinitive	the first stream not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	sail away	past	Wang Chih				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
8	go	could	Wang					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	escape	to-infinitive	Wang not said here					tree rules
10	drown	gerund · passive	Wang not said here					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»

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 34