The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 69
Punchkin saw him, and came to him at once, and said: “My boy, where did you get that parrot?
Who acts: Punchkin, you · What happens: see, come, say, get · To what, where: Prince, parrot · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Punchkin, you), 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 | Punchkin | Punchkin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 saw | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 came | cc |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 came | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 once | case |
| 10 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 saw | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 boy | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 boy | punct |
| 16 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 boy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 get | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 get | advmod |
| 20 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 boy | acl:relcl |
| 23 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 parrot | det |
| 24 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 get | obj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Punchkin | Prince | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come | past | Punchkin not said here | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Punchkin not said here | My boy ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | get in a quote | past · do-support | you | that parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus |
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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