The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 55
It opened its mouth, dropped the stone into Guido’s lap, and departed.
Who acts: serpent · What happens: open, drop, depart · To what, where: mouth, stone, lap
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 (serpent), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 opened | nsubj |
| 2 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 4 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 opened | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 dropped | punct |
| 6 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 opened | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stone | det |
| 8 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 lap | case |
| 10 | Guido | Guido | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lap | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Guido | case |
| 12 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dropped | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 departed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 departed | cc |
| 15 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dropped | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open | past | serpent | serpent's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | the stone | Guido's lap | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme into lap=Destination | ||||
| 3 | depart | past | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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