The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 36
Fortunately, the sea lay right underneath the dragon’s cave, or he would have done some nice mischief.
Who acts: sea · What happens: lie, do · To what, where: cave, nice mischief
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 (sea), 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 | Fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 5 lay | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fortunately | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sea | det |
| 4 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | nsubj |
| 5 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 11 cave | advmod |
| 7 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 11 cave | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dragon | det |
| 9 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 dragon | case |
| 11 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lay | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 done | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 lay | conj |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 mischief | det |
| 19 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 mischief | amod |
| 20 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the sea | the dragon's cave | fortunately property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent underneath cave=Location | |||
| 2 | do | would · perfect | sea | some nice mischief | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/36/