The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 23
The third knight was to search through China for the fire-rat, and to bring her its skin.
Who acts: third knight · What happens: be, bring · To what, where: China, skin, Princess
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (third knight), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 knight | det |
| 2 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 search | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 search | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 search | mark |
| 6 | search | search | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 China | case |
| 8 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 search | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 rat | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 rat | det |
| 11 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rat | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 fire | punct |
| 13 | rat | rat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 search | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bring | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 bring | cc |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 bring | mark |
| 17 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 search | conj |
| 18 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 bring | obj |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 skin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 bring | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 search | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the third knight | China | for the fire rat; search property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | bring | to-infinitive | the third knight not said here | rat's skin | Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination skin=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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