The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 5, sentence 25
The fifth knight was to find the swallow which carried a shell in its stomach, and which lived in the Aegean Sea, and to bring her the shell.
Who acts: fifth knight, swallow · What happens: be, carry, live, bring · To what, where: shell, stomach, Aegean Sea, 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 (fifth knight, swallow), 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 | fifth | fifth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knight | amod |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 swallow | det |
| 8 | swallow | swallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 carried | nsubj |
| 10 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 swallow | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 shell | det |
| 12 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 stomach | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stomach | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carried | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lived | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 lived | cc |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lived | nsubj |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 carried | conj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 Sea | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Sea | det |
| 22 | Aegean | Aegean | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Sea | compound |
| 23 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 lived | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bring | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 bring | cc |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 bring | mark |
| 27 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 find | conj |
| 28 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 bring | obj |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 shell | det |
| 30 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bring | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the fifth knight | the swallow obj; find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the swallow | a shell | shell's stomach | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shell=Value in stomach=Location | |||
| 3 | live | past | the Aegean Sea | which nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sea=Location | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | the fifth knight not said here | the shell | Princess | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination shell=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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