The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 131

The Crow stayed through the night with his poor friend, trying to think of some way to free him, and at last he hit upon a plan which proved to be successful.

Who acts: Crow, plan · What happens: stay, try, think, hit, prove, be

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, plan), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	nsubj
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 night	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 night	det
6	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 friend	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 friend	nmod:poss
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 friend	amod
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trying	punct
12	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 stayed	advcl
13	to	to	PART	_	14 think	mark
14	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 trying	xcomp
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 way	case
16	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	17 way	det
17	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 think	obl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 free	mark
19	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 way	amod
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 free	nsubj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 hit	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 hit	cc
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 last	case
24	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hit	obl
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 hit	nsubj
26	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	parataxis
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 plan	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 plan	det
29	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hit	obl
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 proved	nsubj
31	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 plan	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	34 successful	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	34 successful	cop
34	successful	successful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 proved	ccomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stayed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the Crow	night	with CROW's poor friend	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with friend=Location
2	try	gerund	the Crow not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	think speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Crow not said here		of some way	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hit	past	CROW		upon a plan; at last	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at last=Patient
5	prove	past	a plan			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
6	is	to-infinitive	a plan not said here		successful property	tree rules

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 131

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 131