The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 137
Then the Crow uttered a loud croak; up sprang the Deer and made off.
Who acts: Crow · What happens: utter, spring, make off · To what, where: loud croak, Deer
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), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 uttered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Crow | det |
| 3 | Crow | Crow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | nsubj |
| 4 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 croak | det |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 croak | amod |
| 7 | croak | croak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 uttered | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 sprang | punct |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 10 sprang | advmod |
| 10 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 uttered | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Deer | det |
| 12 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sprang | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 sprang | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 made | compound:prt |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | utter speech: other | past | the Crow | a loud croak | then | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent croak=Topic | |||
| 2 | spring | past | the Deer | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location deer=Theme | |||||
| 3 | make off | participle | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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