The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 64

In the twinkling of an eye he had overthrown the six jugs full of water, seized the little parrot, which he rolled up in his cloak, and mounted again into the air.

Who acts: Down · What happens: overthrow, seize, roll up, mount · To what, where: six jugs, little parrot, twinkling, cloak, air

This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Down), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 twinkling	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 twinkling	det
3	twinkling	twinkling	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 eye	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 eye	det
6	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 twinkling	nmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 overthrown	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 overthrown	aux
9	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 eye	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 jugs	det
11	six	six	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 jugs	nummod
12	jugs	jug	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 overthrown	obj
13	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 jugs	amod
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 full	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 twinkling	punct
17	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 parrot	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 parrot	amod
20	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 seized	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rolled	punct
22	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 rolled	obj
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rolled	nsubj
24	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 parrot	acl:relcl
25	up	up	ADP	_	24 rolled	compound:prt
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 cloak	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 cloak	nmod:poss
28	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 rolled	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 mounted	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mounted	cc
31	mounted	mount	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 seized	conj
32	again	again	ADV	_	31 mounted	advmod
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 air	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 air	det
35	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 mounted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	overthrow	past · perfect	Down	the six jugs			tree rules
2	seize	past		the little parrot	the twinkling of a eye		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parrot=Theme
3	roll up	past	Down	the little parrot	Down's cloak		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent which=Theme in cloak=Trajectory
4	mount	participle			the air	again	vn meander-47.7 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into air=Location

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 4, sentence 64