The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 7, sentence 80
“‘Who is there?’ croaked he.
What happens: be, croak · To what, where: Vulture · 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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 croaked | punct |
| 2 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 3 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 croaked | ccomp |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 8 | croaked | croak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 croaked | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 croaked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | there | Who nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | croak in a quote | past | Vulture | 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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