The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 6, sentence 9
With this the Crab went behind the Fox, and firmly gripped his tail with his pincers.
What happens: go, grip · To what, where: tail
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: 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 Crab | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Crab | nsubj |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Crab | det |
| 4 | Crab | Crab | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gripped | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gripped | cc |
| 11 | firmly | firmly | ADV | _ | 12 gripped | advmod |
| 12 | gripped | grip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tail | nmod:poss |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gripped | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 pincers | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pincers | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pincers | pincer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 gripped | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | with the Crab this; behind the Fox | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with crab=Beneficiary | |||||
| 2 | grip | past | Crab's tail | with Crab's pincers; firmly property | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent tail=Experiencer with pincer=Instrument |
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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