The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 126
Very soon the Crow, who had been looking for his friend, came along, and seeing his sorry plight, asked him how this all happened.
Who acts: Crow, seeing, this · What happens: look, come along, see, ask, happen, plight · To what, where: sorry plight, CROW · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Crow, seeing, this), 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 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Crow | det |
| 4 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 looking | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looking | aux |
| 8 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 looking | aux |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 Crow | conj |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 friend | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 friend | nmod:poss |
| 12 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Crow | punct |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 asked | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 asked | cc |
| 18 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 asked | csubj |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 plight | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plight | amod |
| 21 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seeing | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seeing | punct |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 came | conj |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | iobj |
| 25 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 happened | advmod |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 happened | nsubj |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 happened | advmod |
| 28 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 asked | ccomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | past · perfect · progressive | the Crow | for CROW's friend | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come along | past | the Crow | along, soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | CROW's sorry plight | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plight=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | seeing | CROW | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past | this | all property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | plight | CROW | nom plight «state 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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