The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 8, sentence 103
It rained hard, and of course the paper bird became wet, and being paper, it crumpled up and fell into the sea.
Who acts: It, paper bird, storm · What happens: rain, become, be, crumple up, fall · To what, where: paper, sea
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, paper bird, storm), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rained | nsubj |
| 2 | rained | rain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 rained | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 became | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 became | cc |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bird | case |
| 7 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 of | fixed |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bird | det |
| 9 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bird | compound |
| 10 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 became | nsubj |
| 11 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rained | conj |
| 12 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 became | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 paper | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 paper | cc |
| 15 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 paper | cop |
| 16 | paper | paper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 rained | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 crumpled | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 crumpled | nsubj |
| 19 | crumpled | crumple | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 rained | parataxis |
| 20 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 crumpled | compound:prt |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fell | cc |
| 22 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 crumpled | conj |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 sea | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sea | det |
| 25 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 rained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rain | past | It | hard property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 2 | become | past | the paper bird | wet property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | paper | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | crumple up | past | storm | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | fall | past | storm not said here | into the sea result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result |
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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