The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 3, sentence 66
As they sat there crying they saw by the tomb a small tank filled with a rich cream-like substance, which hardened into a thick white cake.
Who acts: Princesses, rich like substance · What happens: sit, cry, see, fill, harden · To what, where: small tank, thick white cake
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princesses, rich like substance), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 sat | advmod |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 tomb | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tomb | det |
| 10 | tomb | tomb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tank | det |
| 12 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tank | amod |
| 13 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 saw | obj |
| 14 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 tank | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 substance | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 substance | det |
| 17 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 substance | amod |
| 18 | cream | cream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 like | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 like | punct |
| 20 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 substance | amod |
| 21 | substance | substance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 filled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 hardened | punct |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 hardened | nsubj |
| 24 | hardened | harden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 substance | acl:relcl |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 cake | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 cake | det |
| 27 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cake | amod |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 cake | amod |
| 29 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hardened | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | Princesses = princess | there | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | gerund | Princesses = princess not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Princesses = princess | a small tank | by the tomb | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tank=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | fill | participle | a small tank not said here | with a rich like substance | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with substance=Instrument | ||||
| 5 | harden | past | a rich like substance | a thick white cake | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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