The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 109
“It is a mile wide, and the fish in it are six yards long, and covered with spikes like porcupines.”
Who acts: laugh · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: mile
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 (laugh), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 mile | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 mile | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mile | det |
| 5 | mile | mile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 long | obl |
| 6 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mile | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fish | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fish | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fish | det |
| 10 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mile | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 it | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fish | nmod |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 long | cop |
| 14 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 yards | nummod |
| 15 | yards | yard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 long | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 covered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 covered | cc |
| 19 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 long | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 spikes | case |
| 21 | spikes | spike | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 covered | obl |
| 22 | like | like | ADP | _ | 23 porcupines | case |
| 23 | porcupines | porcupine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 spikes | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 long | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | laugh | a mile and the fish in mile | the fish in mile conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | six yards obl:unmarked; long property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | cover in a quote | participle | with spikes like porcupines | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with spike=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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