The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 19
He got upon his feet, and the Crab, who had released his grip from the Fox’s tail, crawled up in front of him, looking just as fresh as when they began the race.
Who acts: race, Crab, feet · What happens: get, release, crawl up, look, begin, grip · To what, where: Crab, tail, front, race
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 (race, Crab, feet), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 5 feet | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 feet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 got | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 crawled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 crawled | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Crab | det |
| 9 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 crawled | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 released | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 released | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 released | aux |
| 13 | released | release | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Crab | acl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 grip | nmod:poss |
| 15 | grip | grip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 released | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 tail | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Fox | det |
| 18 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tail | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 Fox | case |
| 20 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 released | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Crab | punct |
| 22 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 got | conj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 crawled | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 front | case |
| 25 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 crawled | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 front | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looking | punct |
| 29 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 crawled | advcl |
| 30 | just | just | ADV | _ | 32 fresh | advmod |
| 31 | as | as | ADV | _ | 32 fresh | advmod |
| 32 | fresh | fresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 looking | xcomp |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 began | mark |
| 34 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 began | advmod |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 began | nsubj |
| 36 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 fresh | advcl |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 race | det |
| 38 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 began | obj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | race | upon race's feet | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | release | past · perfect · passive | the Crab | the Fox's tail | race's grip obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | crawl up | past | the Crab | front of race | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the Crab not said here | fresh property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | feet = foot | the race | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | grip | race | nom grip «act transitive»: poss=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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