The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 26, sentence 50
He then dropped one of his white seeds into the mortar, and it at once became so large that it covered the whole grass plot under the peach tree, and it was filled to the brim with glittering precious stones.
Who acts: Hang, mortar · What happens: drop, become, cover, fill, glitter · To what, where: one, mortar, whole grass plot, peach tree, precious stones
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 (Hang, mortar), 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 | 3 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 dropped | advmod |
| 3 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 dropped | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 seeds | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 seeds | nmod:poss |
| 7 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 seeds | amod |
| 8 | seeds | seed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 one | nmod |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 mortar | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mortar | det |
| 11 | mortar | mortar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dropped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 became | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 became | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 became | nsubj |
| 15 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 17 became | mark |
| 16 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 17 became | advmod |
| 17 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 dropped | conj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 large | advmod |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 became | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 covered | mark |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 covered | nsubj |
| 22 | covered | cover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 large | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 plot | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 plot | amod |
| 25 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plot | compound |
| 26 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 covered | obj |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 tree | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tree | det |
| 29 | peach | peach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tree | compound |
| 30 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 plot | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 filled | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 filled | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 filled | aux:pass |
| 35 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 dropped | conj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 brim | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 brim | det |
| 38 | brim | brim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 filled | obl |
| 39 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 40 glittering | mark |
| 40 | glittering | glitter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 35 filled | advcl |
| 41 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 stones | amod |
| 42 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 40 glittering | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | Hang | one of Hang's white seeds | the mortar | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme into mortar=Destination | ||
| 2 | become | past | mortar | large, once property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | cover | past | mortar | the whole grass plot | the peach tree | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plot=Destination | |||
| 4 | fill | past · passive | mortar | to the brim | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | glitter | gerund | precious stones | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent stone=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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