The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 98

But he threw a red seed into the river, and in a moment it had become a little brook, across which he could hop on one foot, and the huge fishes were changed into tadpoles.

Who acts: Pei, head · What happens: throw, become, hop, change · To what, where: red seed, river, little brook, one foot, huge fishes

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, head), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 threw	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 threw	nsubj
3	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 seed	det
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 seed	amod
6	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threw	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 become	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 become	cc
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 moment	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 moment	det
14	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	obl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 become	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 become	aux
17	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 threw	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 brook	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 brook	amod
20	brook	brook	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 become	xcomp
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hop	punct
22	across	across	ADP	_	23 which	case
23	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 hop	obl
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hop	nsubj
25	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 hop	aux
26	hop	hop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 become	conj
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 foot	case
28	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 foot	nummod
29	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hop	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 changed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 changed	cc
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 fishes	det
33	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 fishes	amod
34	fishes	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 changed	nsubj
35	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 changed	aux:pass
36	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 threw	conj
37	into	into	ADP	_	38 tadpoles	case
38	tadpoles	tadpole	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 changed	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	Pei	a red seed			into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer seed=Theme into river=Result
2	become	past · perfect	head	a little brook		moment		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	hop	could	Pei		one foot		which obl	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across which=Trajectory
4	change	past · passive		the huge fishes			into tadpoles result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: subject=Patient into tadpole=Result

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 98

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 98