The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 103
Into the river Pei-Hang threw one of the little red seeds, and one of the nearest alligators made a snap at it, but missed it.
Who acts: Pei Hang, one · What happens: throw, make, miss · To what, where: one, river, snap
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei Hang, one), 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 | Into | into | ADP | _ | 3 river | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 river | det |
| 3 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | obl |
| 4 | Pei | Pei | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Hang | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pei | punct |
| 6 | Hang | Hang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 threw | nsubj |
| 7 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 threw | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 seeds | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 seeds | det |
| 11 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seeds | amod |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 seeds | amod |
| 13 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 one | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 made | cc |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 made | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 alligators | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 alligators | det |
| 19 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 alligators | amod |
| 20 | alligators | alligator | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threw | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 snap | det |
| 23 | snap | snap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 it | case |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 missed | punct |
| 27 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 missed | cc |
| 28 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 threw | conj |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 missed | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | Pei Hang | one of the little red seeds | into the river result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer one=Theme into river=Result | |||
| 2 | make | past | one of the nearest alligators | a snap | snap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset snap=Product | |||
| 3 | miss | past | Pei Hang not said here | snap | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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