The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 15
Feeling sure that the Crab was now far behind, he lay down on the ground, panting.
Who acts: Crab · What happens: feel, be, lie down, pant · To what, where: ground
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 (Crab), 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 | Feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 2 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Feeling | xcomp |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 behind | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Crab | det |
| 5 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 behind | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 behind | cop |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 behind | advmod |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 behind | advmod |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 2 sure | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Feeling | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 lay | advmod |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 ground | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 panting | punct |
| 18 | panting | pant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 lay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | gerund | Crab not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Crab | now | behind, far property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | lie down | past | Crab | the ground | down property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | |||
| 4 | pant | gerund | Crab not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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