The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 109
Then, without really expecting to find anything, he raised the stone, and underneath it was the paper bag.
Who acts: Musai, stone · What happens: expect, find, raise, be · To what, where: anything, stone
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Musai, stone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 raised | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 5 expecting | mark |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 expecting | advmod |
| 5 | expecting | expect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 raised | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 expecting | xcomp |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 expecting | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 raised | nsubj |
| 11 | raised | raise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 bag | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 bag | cc |
| 16 | underneath | underneath | ADP | _ | 21 bag | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bag | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bag | cop |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 bag | det |
| 20 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bag | compound |
| 21 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 raised | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 raised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | gerund | Musai not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Musai not said here | anything | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Topic | ||||
| 3 | raise | past | Musai | the stone | then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | stone | underneath the paper bag | 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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