The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 4, sentence 98
Marvelling at the beautiful sight, he went to this bamboo stem, in the hollow of which was a tiny, but exceedingly beautiful, little girl, about three inches in height.
Who acts: Marvelling · What happens: go, be · To what, where: hollow
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 (Marvelling), 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 | Marvelling | marvelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | nsubj |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 sight | amod |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Marvelling | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 went | nsubj |
| 8 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 stem | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 stem | det |
| 11 | bamboo | bamboo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stem | compound |
| 12 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 hollow | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 hollow | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 hollow | det |
| 16 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 tiny | obl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tiny | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 tiny | det |
| 21 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hollow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 girl | punct |
| 23 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 girl | cc |
| 24 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 25 beautiful | advmod |
| 25 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 girl | amod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 beautiful | punct |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 girl | amod |
| 28 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 went | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 inches | punct |
| 30 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 three | advmod |
| 31 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 inches | nummod |
| 32 | inches | inch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 girl | conj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 height | case |
| 34 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 inches | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Marvelling at the beautiful sight | the hollow | to this bamboo stem; beautiful little girl and three inches in height parataxis | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to stem=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | is | past | of the hollow; tiny property | tree rules |
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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