The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 133

Sharp-sense, as soon as he saw him approaching, said to his friend, “Look as though you were dead; stiffen out your legs and lie very still.

Who acts: Sharp sense, friend · What happens: see, approach, say, look, be, stiffen out · To what, where: CROW, friend, legs · 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 (Sharp sense, friend), 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	Sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sense	amod
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Sharp	punct
3	sense	sense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct
5	as	as	ADV	_	6 soon	advmod
6	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 saw	advmod
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 saw	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	nsubj
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saw	obj
11	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 said	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 approaching	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	parataxis
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 friend	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 friend	nmod:poss
16	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 Look	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 Look	punct
19	Look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	conj
20	as	as	ADV	_	19 Look	advmod
21	though	though	SCONJ	_	24 dead	mark
22	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	24 dead	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dead	cop
24	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 Look	advcl
25	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 stiffen	punct
26	stiffen	stiffen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 saw	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 stiffen	compound:prt
28	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 legs	nmod:poss
29	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stiffen	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 lie	cc
31	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 stiffen	conj
32	very	very	ADV	_	33 still	advmod
33	still	still	ADV	_	31 lie	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	Sharp sense	CROW			sense nsubj; soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	approach	gerund						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past			CROW's friend			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient
4	look in a quote	infinitive						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
5	is in a quote	past	CROW's friend = friend				dead property	tree rules
6	stiffen out in a quote	infinitive	Sharp sense not said here	your legs				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent leg=Patient
7	lie in a quote	present	Sharp sense not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 133