The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 32

He took out his little box, threw one of the red seeds on top of the gems, and in a moment the tremendous pestle and mortar shrank into one of ordinary size.

Who acts: Pei, tremendous pestle · What happens: take out, throw, shrink · To what, where: little box, one

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pei, tremendous pestle), 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 took	nsubj
2	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 took	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 box	nmod:poss
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 box	amod
6	box	box	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 took	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 threw	punct
8	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 threw	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 seeds	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 seeds	det
12	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 seeds	amod
13	seeds	seed	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 top	case
15	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 seeds	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 gems	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gems	det
18	gems	gem	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 top	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 shrank	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shrank	cc
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 moment	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 moment	det
23	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrank	obl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 pestle	det
25	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 pestle	amod
26	pestle	pestle	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shrank	nsubj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 mortar	cc
28	mortar	mortar	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 pestle	conj
29	shrank	shrink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 took	conj
30	into	into	ADP	_	31 one	case
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 shrank	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 size	case
33	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 size	amod
34	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 one	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	take out	past	Pei	Pei's little box			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent box=Theme
2	throw	past	Pei not said here	one of the red seeds on top of the gems			vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme
3	shrink	past	the tremendous pestle and mortar		moment	into one of ordinary size result	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent into one=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 26, sentence 32

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 32