The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 23, sentence 93
The next morning Lumawig asked to see their chickens, and when they opened the chicken-coop out came a hen and many little chicks.
Who acts: Lumawig, chickens, hen · What happens: ask, see, open out, come · To what, where: chickens, chicken coop
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 (Lumawig, chickens, hen), 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 morning | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Lumawig | Lumawig | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 see | mark |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 chickens | nmod:poss |
| 9 | chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 see | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 came | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 opened | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 opened | nsubj |
| 14 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coop | det |
| 16 | chicken | chicken | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coop | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 chicken | punct |
| 18 | coop | coop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 opened | obj |
| 19 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 opened | compound:prt |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 asked | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 hen | det |
| 22 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 chicks | cc |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chicks | amod |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 chicks | amod |
| 26 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 hen | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Lumawig | morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see not said to happen | to-infinitive | Lumawig not said here | men's chickens | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chicken=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | open out | past | chickens = chicken | the chicken coop | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location coop=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | a hen and many little chicks | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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