The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 65
He opened the bottle, and mixed the contents carefully with a few drops of the elixir of life, which was clear as crystal, and of which each drop shone like a diamond as he poured it in.
Who acts: Hare, elixir · What happens: open, mix, be, shine, pour in · To what, where: bottle, contents, drop
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 (Hare, elixir), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bottle | det |
| 4 | bottle | bottle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mixed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 mixed | cc |
| 7 | mixed | mix | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 contents | det |
| 9 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 mixed | obj |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 7 mixed | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 drops | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 drops | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 drops | amod |
| 14 | drops | drop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 mixed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 elixir | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 elixir | det |
| 17 | elixir | elixir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 drops | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 elixir | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clear | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 clear | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 clear | cop |
| 23 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 elixir | conj |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 crystal | case |
| 25 | crystal | crystal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 clear | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 which | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 which | cc |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 which | case |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 opened | obj |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 drop | det |
| 31 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 which | nsubj |
| 32 | shone | shine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 drop | acl |
| 33 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 diamond | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 diamond | det |
| 35 | diamond | diamond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 shone | obl |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 poured | mark |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 poured | nsubj |
| 38 | poured | pour | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 shone | advcl |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 poured | obj |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 poured | compound:prt |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | Hare | the bottle | which each drop obj | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent bottle=Theme which=Destination | |||
| 2 | mix | past | Hare not said here | the contents | with a few drops of the elixir of life; carefully property | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent contents=Patient with drop=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | the elixir of life | as crystal; clear property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | shine | participle | each drop not said here | like a diamond | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pour in | past | Hare | bottle | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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